Begin meaning

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)

take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

“We began working at dawn”

“Who will start?”

have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense

“The DMZ begins right over the hill”

“The second movement begins after the Allegro”

set in motion, cause to start

“The U.S. started a war in the Middle East”

“The Iraqis began hostilities”

begin to speak or say

“`Now listen, friends', he began”

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

“The number `one' begins the sequence”

“A terrible murder begins the novel”

have a beginning, of a temporal event

“WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland”

“The company's Asia tour begins next month”

have a beginning characterized in some specified way

“The novel begins with a murder”

“My property begins with the three maple trees”

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

“begin a cigar”

“She started the soup while it was still hot”

achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative

“This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation”

“You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war”

begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language

“She began Russian at an early age”

“We started French in fourth grade”