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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation, production |
| Synonyms: | bearing, begetting, breeding, bringing forth, engenderment, formation, fructifying, genesis, multiplying, origination, procreation, propagation, reproduction, spawning |
| Antonyms: | destruction |
| Main Entry: | origination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | origin |
| Synonyms: | beginning, birth, commencement, conception, creation, dawn, dawning, discovery, genesis, innovation, introduction, launch, source, start, starting point |
| Main Entry: | incipience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | alpha, basis, birth, blastoff, commencement, creation, dawn, dawning, day one, genesis, inauguration, inception, incipiency, induction, infancy, initiation, installation, introduction, kickoff, launch, leadoff, onset, opener, opening, origin, origination, outset, point of departure, preface, prelude, presentation, rise, root, rudiment, source, spring, square one, start, starting point, takeoff, threshold, top |
| Main Entry: | incipiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | alpha, basis, birth, blastoff, commencement, creation, dawn, dawning, day one, genesis, inauguration, inception, incipience, induction, infancy, initiation, installation, introduction, kickoff, launch, leadoff, onset, opener, opening, origin, origination, outset, point of departure, preface, prelude, presentation, rise, root, rudiment, source, spring, square one, start, starting point, takeoff, threshold, top |
| Main Entry: | leadoff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | alpha, basis, birth, blastoff, commencement, creation, dawn, dawning, day one, genesis, inauguration, inception, incipience, incipiency, induction, infancy, initiation, installation, introduction, kickoff, launch, onset, opener, opening, origin, origination, outset, point of departure, preface, prelude, presentation, rise, root, rudiment, source, spring, square one, start, starting point, takeoff, threshold, top |
| Main Entry: | nascence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | birth |
| Synonyms: | beginning, commencement, dawn, dawning, emergence, fountainhead, genesis, inception, nascency, onset, opening, origin, outset, rise, source, spring*, start |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nascency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | birth |
| Synonyms: | beginning, commencement, dawn, dawning, emergence, fountainhead, genesis, inception, nascence, onset, opening, origin, outset, rise, source, spring*, start |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | beginning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
aboriginal, aliunde, at the breast, baby, babyish, beginning, begun, boyish, callow, childish, embryonic, first, foremost, girlish, in arms, in long clothes, in one's teens, in swaddling clothes, in the cradle, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, infantile, infantine, initial, initiative, initiatory, innascible, introductory, just begun, kittenish, leading, maiden, mewling, nascent, natal, neonatal, new-born, new-fledged, paronymous, postnatal, postpartum, primeval, primogenial, puerile, puling, rudimental, shardborn, tootlish, unfledged, variorum
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| Main Entry: | cause |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
aboriginal, agnogenic, ambiotic, cacestogenous, causal, connate, efficacious, embryonic, embryotic, germinal, original, originated, primary, primitive, primordial, princeps, radical, seminal, subjacent
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