seed
noun (BEGINNING) /siːd/Definition
C2 [C usually plural] the cause of a feeling or situation, or the early stages of it: The seeds of friendship were sown early, and they remained lifelong companions. He may be sowing the seeds of his own destruction in the long term by using violence against his own people.Origins and sourcesBeginnings and starts
(Definition of seed noun (BEGINNING) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- a baptism of/by fire idiom
- a clean sheet/slate idiom
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- beginning noun
- commencement noun
- honeymoon noun
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- initiation noun (START)
- institution noun (START)
- introduction noun (PUT INTO USE)
- jumping-off point noun
- kick-off noun
- onset noun
- salvo noun
- start noun (BEGINNING)
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