• v.
    β¦Ώbe the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series
    lexical concept
  • A terrible murder begins the novel
  • The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester
  • The number β€˜one’ begins the sequence

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
∴ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:begin
wn:interlingual indexili:i35056

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelbegin