Beginnings and starts
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
The SMART Vocabulary cloud shows the related words and phrases you can find in the Cambridge Dictionary that make up this topic. Click on a word to go to the definition.
- a baptism of/by fireidiom
- advent
- baptism
- beginning
- birth
- commencement
- dawn
- dawning
- emergence
- first-wave
- flare-up
- flash
- from
- get-go
- go/be back to square oneidiom
- honeymoon
- inception
- initiation
- institution
- introduction
- jumping-off point
- kick off
- off
- onset
- opening
- outbreak
- preface
- rebaptism
- recommencement
- salvo
- seed
- square
- start
- starter
- starting date
- starting point
- starting time
- the outset
- the thin end of the wedgeidiom
- thin
- trigger
- zero hour