begin - 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)

begin - verb

• take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
• have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
• set in motion, cause to start
• begin to speak or say
• be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series
• have a beginning, of a temporal event
• have a beginning characterized in some specified way
• begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
• achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative
• begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language

begin - thesaurus

commence   get   start