All commencement synonyms

noun commencement

• outset — the beginning or start: I wanted to explain the situation at the outset.
• dawning — gradually beginning to become light
• convocation — A convocation is a meeting or ceremony attended by a large number of people.
• kickoff — Football. a place kick or a drop kick from the 40-yard line of the team kicking at the beginning of the first and third periods or after the team kicking has scored a touchdown or field goal.
• onset — a beginning or start: the onset of winter.
• initiation — formal admission or acceptance into an organization or club, adult status in one's community or society, etc.
• graduation — an act of graduating; the state of being graduated.
• opening — an open or clear space.
• admission — Admission is permission given to a person to enter a place, or permission given to a country to enter an organization. Admission is also the act of entering a place.
• bow — When you bow to someone, you briefly bend your body towards them as a formal way of greeting them or showing respect.
• start — to begin or set out, as on a journey or activity.
• birth — When a baby is born, you refer to this event as his or her birth.
• alpha — the first letter in the Greek alphabet (Α, α), a vowel transliterated as a
• dawn — Dawn is the time of day when light first appears in the sky, just before the sun rises.
• genesis — an origin, creation, or beginning.
• celebration — A celebration is a special enjoyable event that people organize because something pleasant has happened or because it is someone's birthday or anniversary.
• countdown — A countdown is the counting aloud of numbers in reverse order before something happens, especially before a spacecraft is launched.
• opener — a person or thing that opens.
• services — a service tree, especially Sorbus domestica.
• beginning — The beginning of an event or process is the first part of it.
• origination — to take its origin or rise; begin; start; arise: The practice originated during the Middle Ages.
• inauguration — an act or ceremony of inaugurating.
• instigation — the act of instigating; incitement.
• commencing — Begin; start.
• startup — the act or fact of starting something; a setting in motion.
• proem — an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
• curtain-raiser — A curtain-raiser is an event, especially a sporting event or a performance, that takes place before a more important one, or starts off a series of events.
• tee off — Golf. Also called teeing ground. the starting place, usually a hard mound of earth, at the beginning of play for each hole. a small wooden, plastic, metal, or rubber peg from which the ball is driven, as in teeing off.