Dictionary Entry
begin
begin is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
- 2intransitive verb
To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start.
- 3transitive verb
To enter on; to commence.
- 4transitive verb
To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of.
- 5noun
Beginning.
- 6noun
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)
- 7verb
take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
"We began working at dawn"
"Who will start?"
- 8verb
set in motion, cause to start
"The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"
"The Iraqis began hostilities"
- 9verb
begin to speak or say he began
"Now listen, friends,"
- 10verb
begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language
"She began Russian at an early age"
"We started French in fourth grade"
- 11verb
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"
- 12verb
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"
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- 13verb
have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
"The DMZ begins right over the hill"
"The second movement begins after the Allegro"
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- 14verb
have a beginning characterized in some specified way
"The novel begins with a murder"
"My property begins with the three maple trees"
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- 15verb
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"
- 16verb
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"
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