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beginning noun [ bɪˈɡɪnɪŋ ]

• the point in time or space at which something begins.
• "he left at the beginning of February"
Similar: dawn, birth, inception, conception, origination, genesis, emergence, rise, start, starting point, very beginning, launch, onset, outset, unfolding, development, developing, debut, day one, kick-off, commencement, opening, first part, preface, introduction, foreword, preamble, opening statement, opening remarks, prelude, prologue, exordium, proem, prolegomenon,
Opposite: end, conclusion,

begin verb

• perform or undergo the first part of (an action or activity).
• "Peter had just begun a life sentence for murder"
Similar: start, set about, go about, embark on, launch into, get down to, take up, turn one's hand to, undertake, tackle, initiate, set in motion, institute, inaugurate, get ahead with, get cracking on, get going on, commence,
Opposite: cease,
• not have any chance or likelihood of doing a specified thing.
• "I can't begin to tell you how much I hate that commercial"
Origin: Old English beginnan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German beginnen .

the beginning of the end

• the first sign of the failure or end of something.



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