beginning start commencement | the act of starting something, he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations |
attack tone-beginning | a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase |
imprisonment internment | the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) |
false imprisonment | (law) confinement without legal authority |
imprisonment | putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment |
beginning | the first part or section of something, `It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story |
alliteration initial rhyme beginning rhyme head rhyme | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse, around the rock the ragged rascal ran |
beginning | the event consisting of the start of something, the beginning of the war |
beginning origin root rootage source | the place where something begins, where it springs into being, the Italian beginning of the Renaissance, Jupiter was the origin of the radiation, Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River, communism's Russian root |
captivity imprisonment incarceration immurement | the state of being imprisoned, he was held in captivity until he died, the imprisonment of captured soldiers, his ignominious incarceration in the local jail, he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon |
life imprisonment | a sentence of imprisonment until death |
a beginning commencement first outset get-go start kickoff starting time showtime offset | the time at which something is supposed to begin, they got an early start, she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her |
beginning(a) first | serving to begin, the beginning canto of the poem, the first verse |
in the first place earlier in the beginning to begin with originally | before now, why didn't you tell me in the first place? |
primitively originally in the beginning | with reference to the origin or beginning |