beginning

  1. Noun.  (uncountable) 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.
  2. Noun.  That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
  3. Noun.  That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
  4. Noun.  The initial portion of some extended thing.
  5. Verb.  (present participle of, ''begin'') .
  6. Adjective.  (informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

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