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Definition/Meaning

(noun)

the point at which something begins or starts;

e.g. Tell me the storyline of the book from the beginning.

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Similar Words

Abecedarian

Alpha

Basal

Baseline

Basic

Birth

Commencement

Dawn

Debut

Elemental

Elementary

Emergence

Essential

Essentially

Fundamental

Genesis

Inception

Incipiency

Introductory

Kickoff

Launch

Meat-and-potatoes

Morning

Onset

Opening

Outset

Prefatory

Preliminary

Preparatory

Primary

Rudimentary

Springing

Start

Threshold

Underlying

Unseasoned

Untrained

Untried

Would-be

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Related Words

Advent

Ahead

Amateur

Appearance

Arrival

Basic

Being

Breathing

Breeding

Building

Childhood

Coming

Continuing

Cradle

Creation

Crucial

Debut

Developing

Dilettante

Doing

Early

Elementary

Emergence

Emerging

Enduring

Exordium

Financing

Font

Foreword

Former

Fountain

Fountainhead

Fundamental

Germ

Important

Inauguration

Incoming

Inexpert

Infancy

Initiation

Institution

Intro

Introduction

Jackleg

Key

Lasting

Living

Making

Nonprofessional

Opening

Origin

Preamble

Preceding

Preface

Preliminary

Prelude

Premonitory

Preparatory

Previous

Primal

Primary

Prime

Primeval

Primitive

Primordial

Prior

Prologue

Prolusion

Root

Rude

Seed

Seedbed

Simple

Source

Spring

Uncomplicated

Unprofessional

Unskilled

Unskillful

Warning

Well

Wellspring

Working

Yielding

Youth

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Quotes

• "Habits are hard only in the beginning." -- Gary Keller

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