beginning Definition

begin
verb began (past tense), begun (past participle), beginning (present participle)

tr & intr
1. To start.
tr & intr
2. To bring or come into being.

Example: Our story begins in the summer of 1970
Example: when we began our family
Thesaurus: start, inaugurate, launch, initiate, induce, activate, cause, introduce, originate, found; commence, arise, proceed, sprout, spring up, crop up, emanate, occur, bud, stem, blossom.
intr
3. To start speaking.
intr
4. To be the first, or to take the first step

Example: Nick, will you begin?
intr
5. colloq
To have the ability or possibility to do something.
Example: I can't even begin to understand

Idiom: to begin with

At first; firstly.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon.

Phrasal Verb: begin with someone or something

To deal with them or it first.

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beginning
noun

1. The point or occasion at which something begins.

Thesaurus: source, basis, root, origin, germ, kernel, core, heart, antecedent, embryo, seed, fountainhead; introduction,inception, start, commencement, initiation; Antonym: end, finish.
2. An opening or first part of something.