begin
verbEtymology
From Middle English beginnen, from Old English beginnan (“to begin”), from Proto-West Germanic *biginnan, from Proto-Germanic *biginnaną (“to begin”), from be- + base verb *ginnaną also found in Old English onginnan.
- inherited from *biginnaną✻
- inherited from *biginnan✻
- inherited from beginnan
- inherited from beginnen
Definitions
To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
- I began playing the piano at the age of five.
- Now that everyone is here, we should begin the presentation.
- The program begins at 9 o’clock on the dot.
To come into existence.
- Vast chain of being! which from God began.
Beginning
Beginning; start.
- In prayer, in the light, I see my kin / I touch my tree, my roots, my begin
The neighborhood
- synonymbegin
- synonymcommence
- synonymgo
- synonyminchoate
- synonyminitiate
- synonymopen
- synonymissue
- synonymget
- synonymoriginate
- synonymrock and roll
- synonymstart
- antonymend
- neighborinaugurate
- neighborblaze a trail
- neighborbreak ground
- neighborbreak new ground
- neighborget underway
- neighborlaunch
- neighborleave
- neighborexecute
- neighborrun
- neighborset about
- neighbortake steps
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at begin. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at begin. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at begin
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA