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begynne

begynne is the obsolete spelling of begin.

Meaning of begin

Verb

begin (third-person singular simple present begins, present participle beginning, simple past began, past participle begun)

  1. (ergative) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
    • I began playing the piano at the age of five.
  2. (intransitive) To come into existence.
    • Vast chain of being! which from God began.1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC

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Questions about begynne

What is begynne the obsolete spelling of?
Begynne is the obsolete spelling of begin.

Words near begynne in the dictionary

  1. beguyled
  2. beguyles
  3. beguyling
  4. begware
  5. begyle
  6. begynne
  7. begynnynge
  8. begynnynges
  9. Beha
  10. Beha Ullah
  11. behabitive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: begynne (page history and authors); begin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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