More definitions of "beginning":
- (noun): The first part or section of something.
Example: "'It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story"
- (noun): The event consisting of the start of something.
Example: "The beginning of the war"
- (adj): Serving to begin.
Example: "The beginning canto of the poem"
Synonyms: first
- (noun): The time at which something is supposed to begin.
Synonyms: commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset
Famous quotes containing the word beginning:
“Have you no beginning and end? Which heart is
the real one? Which eye the seer?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“During the long ages of class rule, which are just beginning to cease, only one form of sovereignty has been assigned to all men—that, namely, over all women. Upon these feeble and inferior companions all men were permitted to avenge the indignities they suffered from so many men to whom they were forced to submit.”
—Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906)
“Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav’nly Muse, that on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
In the Beginning how the Heav’ns and Earth
Rose out of Chaos:”
—John Milton (1608–1674)