Commencement: alternatives and connections

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

A beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance before the public, as of an actor or public speaker.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city;…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

of Found

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The act of inuagurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Alt. of Incipiency

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Beginning; commencement; incipient state.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced; as, initiation into a society, into business, literature, etc.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The act of installing or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; as, the installation of an ordained mini…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

of Install

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The act of installing; installation.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes"

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The act of introducing, or bringing to notice.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

of Launch

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

of Open

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

A commencement made anew.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

See Scrimmage.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entr…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a narrower or more specific lexical category.

The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; o…

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

To appoint.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

To leap; to jump.

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

To leap; to jump.

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

The degree of bachelor of arts. (B.A. or A.B.), the first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges.

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a member, substance or component part.

of Begin

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evapor…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

A setting out, starting, or beginning.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

To leap; to jump.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.