beginnings
bi-GIN-ingz/bɪˈɡɪn.ɪŋz/
- 1Plural of beginning.
The company rose from humble beginnings to a global brand.
Historians traced the beginnings of several rival movements to the same decade.
Note
Only the countable uses of beginning can be pluralized. These are the early stages, origins or first portions of something. In humble beginnings, the plural covers a whole set of formative circumstances rather than one starting moment. The act of starting itself has no plural, and neither does beginning as the present participle of begin, so beginnings is always a noun.
beginnings is a form of beginning
beginning, noun: The point in time or space at which something starts, or its first part or stage. Full entry
- Forms
- beginningbeginnings plural
- Spelling
- beginning → beginnings: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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