Commence

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To begin; start.
  • verb-intransitive. To enter upon or have a beginning; start. See Synonyms at begin.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To begin, start.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.
  • verb-intransitive. To begin to be, or to act as.
  • verb-intransitive. To take a degree at a university.
  • v. To enter upon; to begin; to perform the first act of.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To come into existence; take rise or origin; first have existence; begin to be.
  • To enter a new state or assume a new character; begin to be (something different); turn to be or become.
  • To take a degree, or the first degree, in a university or college. See commencement.
  • To cause to begin to be; perform the first act of; enter upon; begin: as, to commence operations; to commence a suit, action, or process in law.
  • Synonyms Commence, Begin. In all ordinary uses commence is exactly synonymous with begin, which, as a purely English word, is nearly always preferable, but more especially before another verb in the infinitive.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. get off the ground
  • v. set in motion, cause to start
  • v. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
  • Antonym
    cease   
    Verb Form
    commenced    commences    commencing   
    Hyponym
    inaugurate    start    embark on    set-off    introduce    recommence    jump-start    usher in    jumpstart    start-up   
    Form
    commenced    commencing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    originate    start    begin   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Spence    cents    commonsense    condense    defence    defense    dense    dispense    expense    fence   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts