Synonyms of the word

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…

alternative

• adj. Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.
• adj. Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground (e.g., alternative medicine, alternative lifestyle,…
• adj. Other.
• adj. alternate; reciprocal.
• n. A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between…
• n. One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
• n. The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.

artefact

• n. (British spelling, Australian spelling) alternative form of artifact.

artifact

• n. An object made or shaped by human hand.
• n. (archaeology) An object, such as a tool, weapon or ornament, of archaeological or historical interest,…
• n. Something viewed as a product of human conception or agency rather than an inherent element.
• n. A structure or finding in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under…
• n. (biology) A structure or appearance in protoplasm due to death, method of preparation of specimens, or…
• n. An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
• n. (computing) A perceptible distortion that appears in a digital image, audio or video file as a result…

beginning

• n. (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space…
• n. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
• n. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
• n. The initial portion of some extended thing.
• v. present participle of begin.
• adj. (informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

ceremonial

• adj. Of, relating to, or used in a ceremony; ritual or formal.
• adj. (archaic) Observant of forms; ceremonious.
• n. A ceremony, or series of ceremonies, prescribed by ritual.

ceremony

• n. A ritual with religious significance.
• n. An official gathering to celebrate, commemorate, or otherwise mark some event.
• n. A formal socially established behaviour, often in relation to people of different ranks.
• n. (obsolete) An omen or portent.

chance

• n. (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
• n. (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
• n. (countable) The probability of something happening.
• n. (countable, archaic) What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To happen by chance, to occur.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To befall; to happen to.
• v. To try or risk.
• v. To discover something by chance.
• v. (Belize) To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
• adj. (rare) Happening by chance, casual.

choice

• n. An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
• n. One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
• n. Anything that can be chosen.
• n. (usually with the) The best or most preferable part.
• n. (obsolete) Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.
• n. (obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.
• adj. Especially good or preferred.
• adj. (slang, New Zealand) Cool; excellent.
• adj. (obsolete) Careful in choosing; discriminating.

commencement

• n. The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
• n. The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
• n. A graduation ceremony, from a school, college or university.

entrance

• n. (countable) The action of entering, or going in.
• n. The act of taking possession, as of property, or of office.
• n. (countable) The place of entering, as a gate or doorway.
• n. (uncountable) The right to go in.
• n. The entering upon; the beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation.
• n. The causing to be entered upon a register, as a ship or goods, at a customhouse; an entering.
• n. (nautical) The angle which the bow of a vessel makes with the water at the water line.
• n. (nautical) The bow, or entire wedgelike forepart of a vessel, below the water line.
• n. (music) When a musician starts playing or singing, entry.
• v. (transitive) To delight and fill with wonder.
• v. (transitive) To put into a trance.

entranceway

• n. Something that provides access to an entrance; an entryway.

entree

• n. Alternative form of entrée.

entry

• n. (uncountable) The act of entering.
• n. (uncountable) Permission to enter.
• n. A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
• n. A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to…
• n. A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help…
• n. An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia; a record made in a log, diary or…
• n. (linear algebra) A term at any position in a matrix.
• n. The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods;…
• n. (music) When a musician starts to play or sing, entrance.

entryway

• n. An opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure.

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.

gap

• n. An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
• n. An opening allowing passage or entrance.
• n. An opening that implies a breach or defect.
• n. A vacant space or time.
• n. A hiatus.
• n. A mountain or hill pass.
• n. (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
• n. (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
• n. (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will…
• n. (Australia) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities…
• n. (genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
• v. (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
• v. (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
• v. (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
• n. Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan).

hatchway

• n. A means of passing through a wall or floor, having a hatch (especially on a ship); a doorway with a hatch…

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…

initiatory

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

introduction

• n. The act or process of introducing.
• n. A means, such as a personal letter, of presenting one person to another.
• n. An initial section of a book or article, which introduces the subject material.
• n. A written or oral explanation of what constitutes the basis of an issue.

introductory

• adj. introducing; giving a preview or idea of.

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.

motility

• n. (uncountable) The state of being motile.
• n. (countable) The degree to which something is motile.

motion

• n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
• n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
• n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
• n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
• n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
• n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
• n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
• n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
• n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
• n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
• v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
• v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
• v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

movement

• n. Physical motion between points in space.
• n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
• n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
• n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
• n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
• n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
• n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
• n. An act of emptying the bowels.
• n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

observance

• n. The practice of complying with a law, custom, command or rule.
• n. The custom of celebrating a holiday or similar occasion.
• n. Observation or the act of watching.
• n. (religion) A rule governing a religious order, especially in the Roman Catholic church.

opportunity

• n. A chance for advancement, progress or profit.
• n. A favorable circumstance or occasion.
• n. (nonstandard, Euro-English) opportuneness.

option

• n. One of a set of choices that can be made.
• n. The freedom or right to choose.
• n. (finance, law) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can…
• n. (graphical user interface) A button on a screen used to select an action (often "menu option").
• v. To purchase an option on something.
• v. (computing, dated) To configure, by setting an option.

orifice

• n. A mouth or aperture, such as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening.

passage

• n. A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
• n. Part of a path or journey.
• n. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
• n. (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
• n. A passageway or corridor.
• n. (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
• n. (euphemistic) The vagina.
• n. The act of passing.
• v. (medicine) To pass a pathogen through a host or medium.
• v. (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
• n. (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic,…
• v. (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement.

passageway

• n. A covered walkway, between rooms or buildings.
• n. Any way for passing in, out or through something.

porta

• n. (anatomy) The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilum.
• n. (anatomy) The foramen of Monro.

possibility

• n. The quality of being possible.
• n. A thing possible; that which may take place or come into being.
• n. An option or choice, usually used in context with future events.

scuttle

• n. A container like an open bucket (usually to hold and carry coal).
• n. A broad, shallow basket.
• n. (obsolete, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A dish, platter or a trencher.
• n. A small hatch or opening in a boat. Also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open…
• n. (construction) A hatch that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for…
• v. (transitive) To deliberately sink one's ship or boat by any means, usually by order of the vessel's commander…
• v. (transitive, by extension, in figurative use) Undermine or thwart oneself (sometimes intentionally), or…
• v. (intransitive) To move hastily, to scurry.
• n. A quick pace; a short run.

sequence

• n. A set of things next to each other in a set order; a series.
• n. A series of musical phrases where a theme or melody is repeated, with some change each time, such as in…
• n. A musical composition used in some Catholic Masses between the readings. The most famous sequence is the…
• n. (mathematics) An ordered list of objects.
• n. (now rare) A subsequent event; a consequence or result.
• n. A series of shots that depict a single action or style in a film, television show etc.
• n. (card games) A meld consisting of three or more cards of successive ranks in the same suit, such as the…
• v. (transitive) to arrange in an order.
• v. (transitive) to determine the order of things, especially of amino acids in a protein, or of bases in…
• v. (transitive) to produce (music) with a sequencer.

space

• n. (heading) Of time.
• n. (heading) Unlimited or generalized physical extent.
• n. (heading) A bounded or specific physical extent.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To roam, walk, wander.
• v. (transitive) To set some distance apart.
• v. To insert or utilise spaces in a written text.
• v. (transitive) To eject into outer space, usually without a space suit.

start

• n. The beginning of an activity.
• n. A sudden involuntary movement.
• n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
• n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.
• n. A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
• v. (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
• v. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
• v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
• v. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
• v. (nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
• v. (euphemistic) To start your periods (menstruation).
• n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
• n. A handle, especially that of a plough.
• n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
• n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

starting

• v. present participle of start.
• n. The act of something that starts.

succession

• n. An act of following in sequence.
• n. A sequence of things in order.
• n. A passing of royal powers.
• n. A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.
• n. (obsolete, rare) The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.