{
    "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
}