beginning
Meaning
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- 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.
- That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
- That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
- The initial portion of some extended thing.
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/bɪˈɡɪn.ɪŋ/
Etymology
From Middle English biginning, beginninge, beginnunge, equivalent to begin + -ing.
New
begin
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- To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
- To be in the first stage of some situation
- To come into existence.
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