OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 16740

beginning

/bᵻˈɡɪn.ɪŋ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
comienzo • empezamiento • inicio • principio
The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
inicio
That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
comienzo • empezamiento • inicio • origen
That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
What was the beginning of the dispute?
introito • principio
The initial portion of some extended thing.
That house is at the beginning of the street.
The author describes the main character’s youth at the beginning of the story.