Word Meanings - COMMENCEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginnig; start. The time of Henry VII . . . nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed "modern history." 2. The day when degrees are conferred by colleges

Additional info about word: COMMENCEMENT

1. The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginnig; start. The time of Henry VII . . . nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed "modern history." 2. The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMMENCEMENT)

• Beginning
• Commencement
• start
• origin
• rise
• initiation
• preparation
• preface
• prelude
• inauguration
• inception
• threshold
• opening
• source
• outset
• foundation
• Initiative
• Start
• leadership
• commencement
• example
• Inlet
• Opening
• ingress
• entrance
• Introduction
• Induction
• importation
• leading
• taking
• presentation
• insertion
• preliminary
• initiative
• portico
• vestibule
• gate
• preamble
• Aperture
• gap
• opportunity
• space
• hole
• fissure
• chink
• beginning

Related words: (words related to COMMENCEMENT)

• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• PRELUDER
  One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• FISSURE
  A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures , the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole
• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• APERTURE
  The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture. Note: The aperture of microscopes is often expressed in degrees, called also the angular aperture,
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• ORIGINABLE
  Capable of being originated.
• TAKE
  Taken. Chaucer.
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• ORIGINATION
  1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
• INDUCTION
  The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal; also, the result or inference so reached. Induction is an inference drawn from all the particulars. Sir W. Hamilton.
• TAKE-OFF
  An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
• ORIGINANT
  Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd.
• ORIGINATOR
  One who originates.
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• POT LEAD
  Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.
• FINLET
  A little fin; one of the parts of a divided fin.
• PLEADINGS
  The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.