BEGINNING meaning: Starting point of any event

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word beginning:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

beginning: Merriam-Webster
beginning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
beginning: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
beginning: Collins English Dictionary
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Beginning, Beginning, beginning: Wordnik
beginning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
beginning: Wiktionary
beginning: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
beginning: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
beginning: Infoplease Dictionary
Beginning, beginning: Dictionary.com
beginning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Beginning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
beginning: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
beginning: Rhymezone
beginning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
beginning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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beginning: Mnemonic Dictionary
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beginning: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
beginning: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)

The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
beginning: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

beginning: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
beginning: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
▸ noun:  That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
▸ noun:  That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
▸ noun:  The initial portion of some extended thing.
▸ adjective:  (informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

Similar:

first, early, primary, basic, elementary, origin, source, commencement, basal, offset, more...

Opposite:

end, conclusion, finish, termination, cessation

Types:

exposition, more...

Phrases:

beginning at, beginning on, new beginning, beginning inventory, beginning rhyme, more...

Adjectives:

very, new, good, real, small, modest, auspicious, true, bad, humble, promising

Colors:

light green, pastel yellow, soft pink, sky blue, mint green, more...