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say it: bi-GIN-ing
beginning is a noun and adjective meaning "the event consisting of the start of something". It carries 6 recorded senses.
the event consisting of the start of something
“the beginning of the war”
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”
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 act of starting something
“he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for beginning come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.