1. The act or process of bringing or being brought into being; a start. 2. The time when something begins or is begun: the beginning of the war.3. The place where something begins or is begun: at the beginning of the road.4. A source; an origin: What was the beginning of the dispute?5. The first part: The front matter is at the beginning of the book.6. An early or rudimentary phase. Often used in the plural: the beginnings of human life on this planet.
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beginning, birth, dawn, genesis, nascence, rise These nouns denote the initial stage of a developmental process: the beginning of a new era in technology; the birth of generative grammar; the dawn of civilization; the genesis of quantum mechanics; the nascence of classical sculpture; the rise and decline of an ancient city-state.
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