First
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Having no predecessor. The ordinal number corresponding to one.
Part of speech: adverb
Definition: Before anything else; firstly.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The person or thing in the first position. The first gear of an engine. Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence. first base A first-class honours degree. A first-edition copy of some publication.
Example sentence: He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Beginning
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing
Part of speech: noun
Definition: 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.That which is begun; a rudiment or element.That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.The initial portion of some extended thing.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
Example sentence: In the beginning it was all black and white.