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 fire idiom
- advent
- baptism
- beginning
- birth
- commencement
- dawn
- dawning
- emergence
- first-wave
- flare-up
- flash
- flash of something
- fresh
- from
- from the get-go
- get-go
- go/be back to square one idiom
- honeymoon
- inauspicious start
- inception
- initiation
- institution
- introduction
- introduction of something
- jumping-off point
- kick off phrasal verb
- off
- onset
- opening
- outbreak
- pre-opening
- preface
- prefix
- rebaptism
- recommencement
- salvo
- seed
- square
- start
- starter
- starting date
- starting point
- starting time
- the outset
- the thin end of the wedge idiom
- thin
- trigger
- trigger point
- zero hour
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to be less important or in a weaker position than someone else
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