Word Study
in the adjacent house |
in the air |
in the altogether |
in the bag |
in the bargain |
in the beginning
| in the blood
| in the buff
| in the cards
| in the clear
| in the dark
in the beginning
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial in the beginning has 2 senses
- in the beginning(r = adv.all) originally, primitively - with reference to the origin or beginning; Array
- in the beginning(r = adv.all) earlier, in the first place, originally, to begin with - before now; "why didn't you tell me in the first place?"
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