Synonyms of the word

initiatory

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

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.

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.

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…

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…