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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something new; something that begins |
| Synonyms: | addition, admittance, awakening, baptism, basic principles, basic text, beginning, commencement, debut, essentials, establishment, exordium, first acquaintance, first taste, foreword, hornbook, inauguration, inception, induction, influx, ingress, initiation, insertion, installation, institution, interpolation, intro, launch, lead, lead-in, opening, opening remarks, overture, pioneering, preamble, preface, preliminaries, prelude, presentation, primer, proem, prolegomenon, prologue, survey |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, ending, finish |
| Main Entry: | ordination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | an installation |
| Synonyms: | appointment, consecration, coronation, installation, investiture, naming |
| Main Entry: | inaugural |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | initiation |
| Synonyms: | admission, baptism, beginning, commencement, debut, enrollment, entrance, inauguration, inception, indoctrination, induction, installation, instatement, investiture, preliminaries |
| Notes: | the presidential induction ceremony is the inauguration; the speech made is the inaugural address or inaugural |
| 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: | instatement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | initiation |
| Synonyms: | admission, baptism, beginning, commencement, debut, enrollment, entrance, inaugural, inauguration, inception, indoctrination, induction, installation, investiture, preliminaries |
| Main Entry: | investiture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | initiation |
| Synonyms: | admission, baptism, beginning, commencement, debut, enrollment, entrance, inaugural, inauguration, inception, indoctrination, induction, installation, instatement, preliminaries |
| Main Entry: | lead-in |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | introduction |
| Synonyms: | addition, admittance, awakening, baptism, basic principles, basic text, beginning, commencement, debut, essentials, establishment, exordium, first acquaintance, first taste, foreword, inauguration, inception, induction, influx, ingress, initiation, insertion, installation, institution, interpolation, intro, launch, lead, opening, opening remarks, overture, pioneering, preamble, preface, preliminaries, prelude, presentation, primer, proem, prolegomenon, prologue, survey |
| 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 |
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