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Meaning of beginning

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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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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