Exact Match:
- beginning
- the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"
- the first part or section of something; "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story"
- the event consisting of the start of something; "the beginning of the war"
- 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"
- 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"
Synonyms:
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- alpha,
- anlage,
- antenatal,
- anticipation,
- appearance,
- authorship,
- autochthonous,
- babyhood,
- basal,
- beginnings,
- birth,
- budding,
- childhood,
- coinage,
- commencement,
- conception,
- concoction,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- cradle,
- creation,
- creative,
- creative effort,
- dawn,
- dawning,
- day,
- derivation,
- devising,
- earliness,
- early hour,
- early stage,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- emergence,
- fabrication,
- fetal,
- first crack,
- first stage,
- foresight,
- formative,
- foundational,
- freshman year,
- fundamental,
- generation,
- genesis,
- gestatory,
- grass roots,
- ground floor,
- hatching,
- head,
- head start,
- improvisation,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in the bud,
- inaugural,
- inception,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoation,
- inchoative,
- incipience,
- incipiency,
- incipient,
- incunabula,
- incunabular,
- infancy,
- infant,
- infantile,
- initial,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- introductory,
- invention,
- inventive,
- making do,
- mintage,
- nascence,
- nascency,
- nascent,
- natal,
- nativity,
- onset,
- opening,
- origin,
- original,
- origination,
- outset,
- outstart,
- parturient,
- parturition,
- postnatal,
- pregnancy,
- pregnant,
- prenatal,
- prevenience,
- prevision,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- procreative,
- prologue,
- provenience,
- radical,
- radix,
- readiness,
- rise,
- root,
- rudiment,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- running start,
- setout,
- source,
- spring,
- sprout,
- start,
- stem,
- stock,
- taproot,
- time to spare,
- ur,
- very beginning,
- youth