beginnings
Where things start
Beginnings are the early stages or origins of something: the beginnings of a friendship, from humble beginnings.
The plural suggests multiple starting points or the gradual emergence of something not yet fully formed.
A project in its beginnings is just getting underway.
The beginnings of doubt crept into her mind.
Act of starting
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
- outsetInitial point of something
- inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony
- kickoffOpening play in football
startup · launch · onset · threshold · introduction · prelude · prologue · groundwork
Morning light's arrival
- daybreakMorning's first light
- morningDay's early hours
- awakeningReturn to consciousness
- sunupMorning's first light
horizon · cockcrow · rooster · alarm · yawn · freshness · newness · glow
Making something exist
- originStarting point or source
- birthComing into the world
- conceptionFormation of an idea
- emergenceComing into existence
formation · source · fountainhead · root · seedbed · cradle · progenitor · ancestor
Moment of ascent
- countdownBackward enumeration to zero
- blastoffRocket launch moment
- ignitionStarting combustion process
- thrustForceful forward motion
propulsion · launchpad · trajectory · mission · spacecraft · shuttle · satellite · orbit
commencement
Act of starting
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
- outsetInitial point of something
- inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony
kickoff · startup · launch · onset · threshold · introduction · prelude · prologue · groundwork · foundation
sunrise
Morning light's arrival
sunup · horizon · cockcrow · rooster · alarm · yawn · freshness · newness · glow · early
creation
Making something exist
- originStarting point or source
- birthComing into the world
- conceptionFormation of an idea
emergence · formation · source · fountainhead · root · seedbed · cradle · progenitor · ancestor · etymology
liftoff
Moment of ascent
- countdownBackward enumeration to zero
- blastoffRocket launch moment
- ignitionStarting combustion process
thrust · propulsion · launchpad · trajectory · mission · spacecraft · shuttle · satellite · orbit · astronaut
crawling
Moving on hands, knees
swaddling · teething · bassinet · pacifier · diapers · milk · gurgling · naptime · playpen · onesie
- temporalitytime, duration, past, present, future
- JanusRoman deity, doors, gates, endings, January
- foundersfounders, founder, co-founders, cofounders, co-founder
- lifespanlifetime, life expectancy, lifespan, infancy, lifecycle
- inevitabilitiesdeath, mortality, taxes, fate, destiny
- baby themesnursery tales, lullabies, nurturing, swaddling, infant care
beginningsendings
Concluding portions
ends · conclusions · finales · terminations · culminations
beginningsdeath
Cessation of life
deaths · demise · extinction · annihilation · destruction
beginningsendings
Concluding portions
conclusions · epilogues · final acts · resolutions · climaxes
- from the beginningSince the origin point
- new beginningChance to start again
- in the beginningAt the start
- beginning to endThe complete duration
- beginning of the endStart of final decline
- at the beginningAt the start