starting time

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsbeginningcommencementfirstoutsetget-gostartkickoffshowtimeoffset

   Broaderpoint

   Narrowerbirthincipiencyterminus a quothreshold

Questions about starting time

What does starting time mean?

starting time means "the time at which something is supposed to begin".

What is another word for starting time?

Close synonyms include beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is starting time a common word?

starting time is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.