S: (n) beginning (the first part or section of something) "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story"
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) beginning, start, commencement (the act of starting something) "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations"
Adjective
S: (adj) beginning, first (serving to begin) "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse"