begin Meaning and Definition

1. n. 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)

2. v. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

3. v. set in motion, cause to start

4. v. begin to speak or say

5. v. begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language

6. v. achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative

7. v. begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object

8. v. have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense

9. v. have a beginning characterized in some specified way

10. v. have a beginning, of a temporal event

11. v. be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series