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Beginning Noun Synonyms
start, commencement, outset, onset, inception, dawn, dawning, birth, genesis, origin, creation, day one, origination, source, well-spring
There are several competing theories about the beginning of life on earth. The beginning of the idea can be traced to Galileo.

opening, start, inception, commencement
I have plenty of energy at the beginning of the day. The book is good at the beginning, but then it gets boring.

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Required Beginning Date (RBD)

Business / Taxes / Required Beginning Date (RBD): Your required beginning date is the date by which you must take your first minimum required distribution from retirement savings plans that require distributions. For an individual retirement account MORE

Point Of Beginning (POB)

Business / Real Estate / Point Of Beginning (POB): In a metes-and bounds legal description, the starting point of the survey, situated in one corner of the parcel, all metes-and-bounds descriptions must follow the boundaries of the parcel back to the MORE

Equity Capital At Beginning Of Year

Business / Finance / Equity Capital At Beginning Of Year: An agreement in which one party, for an up-front premium, agrees to pay the other at specific time periods if a designated stock market benchmark tops a predetermined level. MORE

Initial

Entertainment / Literature / Initial: An enlarged, decorated letter at the beginning of a story, chapter, poem, or section of text in a medieval manuscript. This is also called an initial letter. Initials may be inhabited (having a small MORE

Ab Ovo

Entertainment / Literature / Ab Ovo: (Latin, 'from the egg') This phrase refers to a narrative that starts 'at the beginning' of the plot, and then moves chronologically through a sequence of events to the tale's conclusion. This pattern MORE

Epigram

Entertainment / Literature / Epigram: (from Greek epigramma 'an inscription') (1) An inscription in verse or prose on a building, tomb, or coin. (2) a short verse or motto appearing at the beginning of a longer poem or the title page of a MORE