beginning

Adjective

• serving to begin
  • the beginning canto of the poem
    
  • the first verse
    

Noun

• the act of starting something
  • he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations
    

• the place where something begins, where it springs into being
  • the Italian beginning of the Renaissance
    
  • Jupiter was the origin of the radiation
    
  • Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River
    
  • communism's Russian root
    

• the first part or section of something
  • `It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story
    

• the time at which something is supposed to begin
  • they got an early start
    
  • she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her
    

• the event consisting of the start of something
  • the beginning of the war
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  beginning(a) , first , start , commencement , origin , root , rootage , source
• Antonyms: 
  finish , finishing , middle , end , ending , conclusion