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Definition of beginning : 1. Enterprise.
2. of Begin
3. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
4. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
5. The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.

Synonyms:

initiation, offset printing, solution, commencement ceremony, low gear, first-class honours degree, blood, germ, graduation exercise, root word, mother, parentage, showtime, heart, generator, get-go, stemma, stolon, jump, arising, parent, blood line, low, origination, set-back, number one, first base, bloodline, send-off, ascendent, offset, reservoir, fountainhead, extraction, lineage, incipiency, onset, provenience, reference, pedigree, well, starting time, branch, rootstock, opening, kickoff, starting line, stock, starting signal, launch, setoff, scratch line, ancestor, rootage, ascendant, commencement exercise, runner, leadoff, number 1, startle, root, outgrowth, scratch, ancestry, informant, root system, theme, incipience, head start, rise, outset, author, seed, counterbalance, line of descent, offshoot, provenance, start-off, radical, fount, antecedent, nascence, fountain, first gear, tooth root, descent, etymon, graduation, base, line

original, nativity, early, birthing, derivation, primeval, nascent, conception, start, forming, primal, foremost, incipient, hatching, embarking, introduction, initiating, cradle, precursory, dawning, preparing, germinating, first, babyhood, alpha, emerging, stem, stemming, conceiving, germinal, maiden, source, formative, introducing, earliness, springing, preparatory, infant, dawned, creating, commencing, sprout, prelude, developing, preparation, creation, infancy, inaugural, initializing, originating, newborn, origin, sprouting, spring, preliminary, Genesis, introductory, undertaking, budding, inauguration, infantile, dawn, baby, emergence, embryonic, fetal, aboriginal, starting, inaugurating, initial, inducting, primordial, birth, nascency, inception, commencement, embryo, precursor, new

instituting, generating, producing, inventing

Usage examples:

• At the beginning of dinner Denyse did not talk much. - "Bijou", Gyp.
• But she was beginning to be afraid. - "Gunman's Reckoning", Max Brand.
• She and I were right good friends from the beginning. - "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908", Lucy Maud Montgomery.