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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Beginning \Be*gin"ning\, n. 1. 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. [1913 Webster] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. --Gen. i. 1. [1913 Webster] 2. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source. [1913 Webster] I am . . . the beginning and the ending. --Rev. i. 8. [1913 Webster] 3. That which is begun; a rudiment or element. [1913 Webster] Mighty things from small beginnings grow. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. Enterprise. "To hinder our beginnings." --Shak. [1913 Webster] Syn: Inception; prelude; opening; threshold; origin; outset; foundation. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Begin \Be*gin"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Began}, {Begun}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beginning}.] [AS. beginnan (akin to OS. biginnan, D. & G. beginnen, OHG. biginnan, Goth., du-ginnan, Sw. begynna, Dan. begynde); pref. be- + an assumed ginnan. [root]31. See {Gin} to begin.] 1. To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. [1913 Webster] Vast chain of being! which from God began. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start. "Tears began to flow." --Dryden. [1913 Webster] When I begin, I will also make an end. --1 Sam. iii. 12. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: beginning adj 1: serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse" [syn: {beginning(a)}, {first}] n 1: the event consisting of the start of something; "the beginning of the war" [ant: {conclusion}, {ending}, {finish}] 2: 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" [syn: {beginning}, {commencement}, {first}, {outset}, {get-go}, {start}, {kickoff}, {starting time}, {showtime}, {offset}] [ant: {end}, {ending}, {middle}] 3: the first part or section of something; "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story" [ant: {end}, {middle}] 4: 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" [syn: {beginning}, {origin}, {root}, {rootage}, {source}] 5: the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations" [syn: {beginning}, {start}, {commencement}] [ant: {finish}, {finishing}]