beginnings

noun

1. 1

   The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.

2. 2

   That which is begun; a rudiment or element.

3. 3

   That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.

   “What was the beginning of the dispute?”

4. 4

   The initial portion of some extended thing.

   “That house is at the beginning of the street.”