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{
"term": "beginning",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the time when something starts; the first part of an event, a story, etc.",
"sensetop": "beginning of somethingat the beginning of somethingfrom the beginning",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "A story has to have a beginning, middle, and end."
},
{
"text": "We missed the beginning of the movie.",
"contextForm": "beginning of something"
},
{
"text": "She's been working there **since the beginning of** last summer."
},
{
"text": "The birth of their first child **marked the beginning of** a new era in their life together."
},
{
"text": "We're going to Japan at the beginning of July.",
"contextForm": "at the beginning of something"
},
{
"text": "The animals were weighed at the beginning and end of the experiment."
},
{
"text": "At the beginning of 1836, the work was finished."
},
{
"text": "Let's start again from the beginning.",
"contextForm": "from the beginning"
},
{
"text": "I've read the whole book **from beginning to end** and still can't understand it."
},
{
"text": "Our position was quite clear from the very beginning."
},
{
"text": "I'm paid at the beginning of each month."
},
{
"text": "In the beginning I found the course very difficult."
},
{
"text": "I disliked her from the very beginning."
},
{
"text": "Tell me the whole story, right from the beginning."
},
{
"text": "It was an auspicious beginning to his long career."
},
{
"text": "She spoke of a new beginning for the nation."
},
{
"text": "These changes are just the beginning: much more is to come."
}
],
"topics": ["Literature and writing"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["new", "auspicious", "hopeful"],
"verb + beginning": ["herald", "mark", "represent"],
"preposition": [
"at the beginning (of something)",
"from the beginning",
"in the beginning"
],
"phrases": [
"the beginning of the end",
"early beginnings",
"first beginnings"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the first or early ideas, signs or stages of something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Did democracy have its beginnings in ancient Greece?"
},
{
"text": "The company has grown **from humble beginnings**."
},
{
"text": "The society had its early beginnings in discussion groups."
},
{
"text": "a custom that traces its beginnings to the 15th century"
},
{
"text": "He built up his multimillion-pound music business from small beginnings."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["new", "auspicious", "hopeful"],
"verb + beginning": ["herald", "mark", "represent"],
"preposition": [
"at the beginning (of something)",
"from the beginning",
"in the beginning"
],
"phrases": [
"the beginning of the end",
"early beginnings",
"first beginnings"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "the first sign of something ending",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The scandal was the beginning of the end of his career as a politician."
},
{
"text": "It wasn't the end of their marriage, but it was the beginning of the end."
},
{
"text": "That day was the beginning of the end of our friendship."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/bɪˈɡɪnɪŋ/",
"audio": "be/beginning/beginning__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/bɪˈɡɪnɪŋ/",
"audio": "be/beginning/beginning__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}