BEGIN

BE ·GIN 2 syllables

A2 · Elementary 📏 5 letters 🎲 Scrabble 8 ✅ valid word

Common in conversation and basic reading.

noun
  1. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992)

🔗 Similar words

verb
  1. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
  2. have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
  3. set in motion, cause to start
  4. begin to speak or say

💬 Examples

  • "We began working at dawn"
  • "Who will start?"
  • "The DMZ begins right over the hill"
  • "The second movement begins after the Allegro"
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