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Plural of beginning

regular plural

The plural of beginning is beginnings.

Forms of beginning

Singularbeginning /bɪˈɡɪn.ɪŋ/
Pluralbeginnings
Countablecountable and uncountable

Beginnings in a sentence

  • Despite this, Podemos's beginnings are still illuminating to understand punk's scope of influence adequately.2025 December 9, David Vila Diéguez, Spanish Punk: Screaming for Democracy in a Postdictatorial State, PM Press, →ISBN, page 191. From the entry punk
  • To my agent, Julia Kardon, who believed in this novel from its strange, meandersome beginnings.2022, Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Before All the World. From the entry meandersome
  • “New beginnings, baby, you know what I'm saying?” “Yeah, Lucy.” “Good girl.2014 November 18, Kris Ripper, The New Born Year, Kris Ripper. From the entry oomf
  • Far from mainstream, but skweee definitely has outgrown its humble, stoned beginnings.2009, SPIN, volume 25, number 4, page 30. From the entry skweee
  • He was a heralder of new beginnings, but only on conditions of reciprocity.2009 June 5, “Obama lays out path for peace”, in Toronto Star. From the entry heralder

Meaning of beginning

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
  3. noun That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.

Full definition of beginning

Questions about the plural of beginning

What is the plural of beginning?
The plural of beginning is beginnings.
Is beginning countable?
Beginning is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: beginning (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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