begin

Noun

• Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992)

Verb

• begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language
  • She began Russian at an early age
    
  • We started French in fourth grade
    

• achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative
  • This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation
    
  • You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war
    

• begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
  • begin a cigar
    
  • She started the soup while it was still hot
    
  • We started physics in 10th grade
    

• have a beginning characterized in some specified way
  • The novel begins with a murder
    
  • My property begins with the three maple trees
    
  • Her day begins with a workout
    
  • The semester begins with a convocation ceremony
    

• have a beginning, of a temporal event
  • WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland
    
  • The company's Asia tour begins next month
    

• be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series
  • The number `one' begins the sequence
    
  • A terrible murder begins the novel
    
  • The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester
    

• begin to speak or say
  • Now listen, friends, he began
    

• set in motion, cause to start
  • The U.S. started a war in the Middle East
    
  • The Iraqis began hostilities
    
  • begin a new chapter in your life
    

• have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
  • The DMZ begins right over the hill
    
  • The second movement begins after the Allegro
    
  • Prices for these homes start at $250,000
    

• take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
  • We began working at dawn
    
  • Who will start?
    
  • Get working as soon as the sun rises!
    
  • The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia
    
  • He began early in the day
    
  • Let's get down to work now
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Begin , Menachem Begin , start , lead off , commence , get down , get , start out , set about , set out
• Antonyms: 
  end , terminate , stop , finish , cease