beginning

beginning is a 9-letter English word with 11 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Begin. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 19 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. present participle. of Begin
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
4. noun. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
5. noun. Enterprise.
6. noun. the act of starting something

   "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"

   Synonyms: commencement, start

7. noun. the first part or section of something

   "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story"

8. noun. the event consisting of the start of something

   "the beginning of the war"

9. noun. the place where something begins, where it springs into being

   "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"

   "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"

   Synonyms: origin, root, rootage, source

10. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: commencement, first, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start

11. adjective. serving to begin

    "the beginning canto of the poem"

    "the first verse"

    Synonyms: first

Synonyms

commencement, start, origin, root, rootage, source, first, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime

Common word forms

beginnings

Words from these letters

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