begin

To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.

Noun

  1. Beginning; start.
    • In prayer, in the light, I see my kin / I touch my tree, my roots, my begin - 2006, Quynh Anh, “Hello Vietnam”, in Bonjour Vietnam, published 2008:

Origin

From Middle English beginnen, from Old English beginnan (“to begin”), from Proto-West Germanic *biginnan, from Proto-Germanic *biginnaną (“to begin”), from be- + base verb *ginnaną also found in Old English onginnan.

Forms

begins

Verb

  1. To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
    • I began playing the piano at the age of five.
    • Now that everyone is here, we should begin the presentation.
    • The program begins at 9 o’clock on the dot.
  2. To come into existence.
    • Vast chain of being! which from God began. - 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:

Forms

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Synonyms

begin commence go inchoate initiate open issue get originate rock and roll start

Antonyms

end

Hyponyms

inaugurate blaze a trail break ground break new ground get underway launch leave execute run set about take steps

Derived

begin at the wrong end beginnable beginner beginning begin upon begin with the chucky misbegun rebegin to begin with unbegun