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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | start of an event or action |
| Synonyms: | alpha, basis, birth, blastoff, commencement, creation, dawn, dawning, day one, genesis, inauguration, inception, induction, infancy, initiation, installation, introduction, kickoff, onset, opener, opening, origin, origination, outset, point of departure, preface, prelude, presentation, rise, root, rudiment, source, spring, square one, starting point, takeoff, threshold, top |
| Antonyms: | completion, conclusion, consummation, end, ending, finish, goal, termination |
| Main Entry: | begin |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | start |
| Synonyms: | activate, actualize, break ground, break the ice, bring about, bring to pass, cause, commence, create, do, drive, effect, embark on, enter on, enter upon, establish, eventuate, found, generate, get going, give birth to, give impulse, go ahead, go into, impel, inaugurate, induce, initiate, instigate, institute, introduce, launch, lay foundation for, lead, make, make active, motivate, mount, occasion, open, originate, plunge into, prepare, produce, set about, set in motion, set up, trigger, undertake |
| Antonyms: | complete, conclude, consummate, end, finish |
| Main Entry: | begin |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come into being; become functional |
| Synonyms: | appear, arise, be born, bud, come forth, come into existence, come out, commence, crop up, dawn, derive from, emanate, emerge, enter, germinate, get going, get show on road, get under way, grow out of, happen, issue forth, kick off, make tick, occur, originate, proceed from, result from, rise, sail, send off, set, spring, sprout, start, stem from, take off |
| Antonyms: | die, end |
| Main Entry: | birth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | becoming alive |
| Synonyms: | act of God, bearing, beginning, birthing, blessed event, childbearing, childbirth, creation, delivery, labor, nascency, natality, nativity, parturition, producing, travail, visit from stork |
| Antonyms: | death |
| Main Entry: | border |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boundary; frontier |
| Synonyms: | beginning, borderline, door, edge, entrance, line, march, marchland, outpost, pale, perimeter, sideline, threshold |
| Notes: | a boarder is a tenant in someone's house while a border is a line that indicates a boundary |
| Antonyms: | mainland, region, territory |
| Main Entry: | boundary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outer limit |
| Synonyms: | abuttals, ambit, barrier, beginning, border, borderland, borderline, bounds, brink, circumference, circumscription, compass, confines, edge, end, environs, extent, extremity, frame, fringe, frontier, hem, horizon, limits, line, line of demarcation, march, margin, mark, mere, mete, outline, outpost, pale, perimeter, periphery, precinct, purlieus, radius, rim, side, skirt, terminal, termination, terminus, verge |
| Antonyms: | inside, interior, minimum |
| Main Entry: | budding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | developing, flowering |
| Synonyms: | beginning, blossoming, burgeoning, bursting forth, embryonic, fledgling, fresh, germinal, germinating, growing, incipient, maturing, nascent, opening, potential, promising, pubescent, pullulating, shooting up, sprouting, vegetating, young |
| Antonyms: | dying, shrinking, withering |
| Main Entry: | cause |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agent, originator |
| Synonyms: | account, agency, aim, antecedent, author, basis, beginning, causation, consideration, creator, determinant, doer, element, end, explanation, foundation, genesis, ground, grounds, incitement, inducement, instigation, leaven, mainspring, maker, matter, motivation, motive, object, occasion, origin, prime mover, principle, producer, purpose, root, source, spring, stimulation |
| Antonyms: | consequence, development, effect, end, fruit, issue, outcome, outgrowth, product, result |
| Main Entry: | cradle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early childhood; origins |
| Synonyms: | babyhood, beginning, birthplace, fount, fountain, fountainhead, infancy, nativity, nursery, origin, source, spring, ultimate cause, wellspring |
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