Synonyms of the word

inaugural

• adj. Of inauguration; as in a speech or lecture by the person being inaugurated.
• adj. Marking the beginning of an operation, venture, etc.
• n. An inauguration; a formal beginning.
• n. A formal speech given at the beginning of an office.

address

• n. Direction or superscription of a letter, or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
• n. Act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech.
• n. Manner of speaking to another; delivery.
• n. Attention in the way one addresses a lady.
• n. Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.
• n. (obsolete) Act of preparing oneself.
• n. A description of the location of a property.
• n. (by extension) The property itself.
• n. (computing) A location in computer memory.
• n. (Internet) An Internet address; URL.
• n. An email address.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To prepare oneself.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To direct speech.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To aim; to direct.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or make ready.
• v. (transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
• v. (reflexive) To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To clothe or array; to dress.
• v. (transitive) To direct, as words, to (anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. to (any…
• v. (transitive) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by…
• v. (transitive) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
• v. (transitive) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
• v. (transitive) To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
• v. (transitive) To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech…
• v. (transitive, formal) To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To refer a location in computer memory.
• v. (golf, transitive) To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).

first

• adj. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
• adj. Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
• adv. Before anything else; firstly.
• n. (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
• n. (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
• n. (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
• n. (countable, baseball) first base.
• n. (countable, Britain, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
• n. (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
• n. A fraction of an integer ending in one.
• n. (obsolete) Time; time granted; respite.

inauguration

• n. The act of inaugurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies.
• n. The formal beginning or initiation of any movement, enterprise, event etc.

induction

• n. An act of inducting.
• n. An act of inducing.
• n. (medicine) The process of inducing the birth process.
• n. (obsolete) An introduction.

initiation

• n. The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced.
• n. The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized…
• n. (chemistry) The first step of transcription or of transduction.

initiative

• adj. Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.
• adj. In which voter initiatives can be brought to the ballot.
• n. A beginning; a first move.
• n. A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
• n. The ability to act first or on one's own.
• n. An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting…

initiatory

• adj. Of or pertaining to initiation.
• adj. inceptive, initial, inaugural or introductory.
• n. An introductory act or rite.

installation

• n. An act of installing.
• n. Something installed, especially the whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories, when set…
• n. A work of installation art.
• n. A grouping of facilities that constitute a permanent military base.

maiden

• n. (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
• n. A female virgin.
• n. (obsolete, dialectal) A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
• n. A maidservant.
• n. (now rare) An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
• n. (horse racing) A racehorse without any victory ('virgin record').
• n. (historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
• n. (cricket) A maiden over.
• n. (obsolete) A machine for washing linen.
• n. (Wicca) Alternative form of Maiden.
• adj. Virgin.
• adj. (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.
• adj. Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
• adj. (figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.
• adj. (cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.
• adj. Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
• adj. (of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.
• adj. (of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned.

opening

• v. present participle of open.
• n. An act or instance of making or becoming open.
• n. Something that is open.
• n. An act or instance of beginning.
• n. Something that is a beginning.
• n. A vacant position, especially in an array.
• n. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
• adj. (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing…

speech

• n. (uncountable) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations…
• n. (countable) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
• n. A style of speaking.
• n. (grammar) Speech reported in writing; see direct speech, reported speech.
• n. A dialect or language.
• n. Talk; mention; rumour.