| noun | Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992) |
| verb | take the first step or steps in carrying out an action “We began working at dawn” |
| verb | have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense “The DMZ begins right over the hill” |
| verb | set in motion, cause to start “The U.S. started a war in the Middle East” |
| verb | begin to speak or say; he began “Now listen, friends,” |
| verb | be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series “The number `one' begins the sequence” |
| verb | have a beginning, of a temporal event “WW II began in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland” |
| verb | have a beginning characterized in some specified way “The novel begins with a murder” |
| verb | begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object “begin a cigar” |
| verb | achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative “This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation” |
| verb | begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language “She began Russian at an early age” |
| beginner | noun | someone new to a field or activity |
| beginning | noun | the act of starting something |
| start | noun | the act of starting something |
| starter | noun | any new participant in some activity |
| commencement | noun | the act of starting something |