beginning

beginning has 11 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• p. pr. & vb. n.. of Begin
• n.. 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.
• n.. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
• n.. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
• n.. Enterprise.
• n.. the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"
• n.. the first part or section of something; "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story"
• n.. the event consisting of the start of something; "the beginning of the war"
• n.. 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"
• n.. 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"
• a.. serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse"