beginning
/bɪˈɡɪn.ɪŋ/ noun A2- 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. · What was the beginning of the dispute?
- The initial portion of some extended thing. · The author describes the main character’s youth at the beginning of the story.· That house is at the beginning of the street.
Plural beginnings
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“Speak, sir, and pray begin at the beginning; I like order in everything.”
Gardiner would have been highly gratified by her niece’s beginning the subject.
“They are the Kalidahs!” said the Cowardly Lion, beginning to tremble.
“I’m not going to begin at the beginning.
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