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1. commence
verb. ['kəˈmɛns'] take the first step or steps in carrying out an action.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- commencer (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
Rhymes with Commence
- misrepresents
- nondefense
- commonsense
- suspense
- pretense
- expense
- dispense
- condense
- intense
- incense
- defense
- defence
- whence
- spens
- spence
- offense
- immense
- ferenc
- thence
- tense
- sense
- pense
- pence
- hense
- hence
- fence
- dense
- cents
- bence
How do you pronounce commence?
Pronounce commence as kəˈmɛns.
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Sentences with commence
1. Verb, non-3rd person singular present
Orangutan mothers typically commence the weaning process when their offspring are somewhere between 3 and 4 years old.
2. Verb, base form
If everyone participates voluntarily, the drill is short and the cruise can commence.
3. Noun, singular or mass
Record, from the voyage charter, the time that loading or discharge is to commence.
Quotes about commence
1. Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
2. Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to your favourite band, gift shop, or chocolate bar.
- Alan C. Martin
3. The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
- Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics
