Beginning

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2) That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
 * 3) That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
 * 4) The initial portion of some extended thing.

Verb
beginning



Adjective

 * 1)  Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing

Adjectives for Beginning
remote; slow; tentative; crude; auspicious; recorded; amateurish; nebulous; unworkable; humble; long-deferred; promising; simple; tragic; ambitious; mandatory; microscopic; substantial; inconspicuous; modest; casual; sweet; indestructible; unpropitious ; unlimited ; significant.

Verbs for Beginning
celebrate—; commemorate—;   declare—; honor—; initiate—; mark—; proceed from—; read from—; trace—; —introduces; — leads off.

Synonyms for Beginning

 * (act of doing that which begins anything): commencing, start, starting
 * (that which is begun; rudiment or element): element, embryo, rudiment
 * (that which begins or originates something): origin, source, start, commencement
 * (initial portion of some extended thing): head, start
 * commencing, starting, first, initial, rise, inception, spring, opening, fountain, outset, inauguration.

Antonyms for Beginning
end, finish, goal, completion, conclusion, consummation.

Derived terms

 * a good beginning makes a good ending
 * beginning of day
 * in the beginning

Thesaurus
abecedarian, aboriginal, alpha, anlage, antenatal, anticipation, appearance, authorship, autochthonous, babyhood, basal, beginnings, birth, budding, childhood, coinage, commencement, conception, concoction, contrivance, contriving, cradle, creation, creative, creative effort, dawn, dawning, day, derivation, devising, earliness, early hour, early stage, elemental, elementary, embryonic, emergence, fabrication, fetal, first crack, first stage, foresight, formative, foundational, freshman year, fundamental, generation, genesis, gestatory, grass roots, ground floor, hatching, head, head start, improvisation, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inception, inceptive, inchoate, inchoation, inchoative, incipience, incipiency, incipient, incunabula, incunabular, infancy, infant, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, invention, inventive, making do, mintage, nascence, nascency, nascent, natal, nativity, onset, opening, origin, original, origination, outset, outstart, parturient, parturition, postnatal, pregnancy, pregnant, prenatal, prevenience, prevision, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreative, prologue, provenience, radical, radix, readiness, rise, root, rudiment, rudimental, rudimentary, running start, setout, source, spring, sprout, start, stem, stock, taproot, time to spare, ur, very beginning, youth

Alternative forms

 * begynnynge