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[ kuh -mens ] SHOW IPA
/ kəˈmɛns / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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verb (used with or without object), com·menced, com·menc·ing. Origin of commence 1250–1300; Middle English
commencen <Anglo-French, Middle French
comencer <Vulgar Latin
*cominitiāre, equivalent to Latin
com- com- +
initiāre to begin; see initiate
SYNONYMS FOR commence originate, inaugurate.
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synonym study for commence See begin.
OTHER WORDS FROM commence com·mence·a·ble, adjective com·menc·er, noun re·com·mence, verb, re·com·menced, re·com·menc·ing. un·com·menced, adjective
well-com·menced, adjective
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Words nearby commence comme il faut, commemorate, commemoration, commemorative, commemoratory, commence , commencement, commend, commendable, commendam, commendation
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However, only days before early voting was to commence , a local judge ordered the polling station open.
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I am just back from Savannah after an absence of twenty days, and return thither to commence operations in November next.
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We passed a few sad hours, until eleven oclock, when the trial was to commence .
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Miss Proctor has made a night-dress; and Monday I must commence vigorously upon her wardrobe.
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British Dictionary definitions for commence verb to start or begin; come or cause to come into being, operation, etc
Derived forms of commence commencer , noun Word Origin for commence C14: from Old French comencer, from Vulgar Latin cominitiāre (unattested), from Latin com- (intensive) + initiāre to begin, from initium a beginning
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