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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | birth, commencement, dawn, derivation, fountain, inauguration, initiation, kickoff, origin, outset, provenance, provenience, rise, root, source, start, well, wellspring |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, ending, finish |
| Main Entry: | conception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning, birth |
| Synonyms: | fertilization, formation, germination, impregnation, inception, initiation, insemination, invention, launching, origin, outset, start |
| Notes: | a concept is a more definite, more unitary, more complete type of notion than is a conception, which is more of an ideational structure with a potential for realization (rather like a schema) |
| Antonyms: | abortion, death |
| Main Entry: | creation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of entity |
| Synonyms: | conception, constitution, establishment, formation, formulation, foundation, generation, genesis, imagination, inception, institution, laying down, making, nascency, nativity, origination, procreation, production, setting up, siring |
| Antonyms: | destruction, ruin |
| Main Entry: | dawn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a beginning |
| Synonyms: | advent, alpha, birth, commencement, dawning, emergence, foundation, genesis, head, inception, onset, opening, origin, outset, outstart, rise, source, start, unfolding |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, ending, finish |
| Main Entry: | derivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | root, source |
| Synonyms: | ancestry, basis, beginning, descent, etymology, foundation, genealogy, inception, origin, provenance, provenience, spin-off, well, wellspring, whence it came |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, consequence, effect, end, outgrowth, result |
| Main Entry: | entrance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coming into a place; introduction |
| Synonyms: | access, accession, adit, admission, admittance, appearance, approach, arrival, baptism, beginning, commencement, debut, enlistment, enrollment, entry, entrée, immigration, import, importation, inception, incoming, ingoing, ingress, ingression, initiation, invasion, outset, passage, penetration, progress, start, trespass |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, departure, exit, leave |
| Main Entry: | fountain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | source, often of liquid |
| Synonyms: | bubbler, cause, font, fount, geyser, gush, inception, inspiration, jet, lode, mainspring, mine, origin, play, provenance, provenience, pump, reservoir, root, spout, spray, spring, stream, well, wellhead, wellspring |
| Main Entry: | genesis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning, creation |
| Synonyms: | alpha, birth, commencement, dawn, dawning, engendering, formation, generation, inception, opening, origin, outset, propagation, provenance, provenience, root, source, start |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, finale, finish |
| Main Entry: | germ |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning |
| Synonyms: | bud, cause, egg, embryo, inception, nucleus, origin, ovule, ovum, root, rudiment, seed, source, spark, spore, sprig, sprout |
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