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(intransitive) To begin, start. / (transitive) To begin to be, or to act as. / (UK, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.

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commence

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Source Word

commence

IPA(Pronunciation)

/kəˈmɛns/

Verb

intransitive transitive UK dated

Japanese Meaning

始める / 開始する / 大学で学位を取得する

What is this buttons?

The ceremony will commence at noon, so please arrive a few minutes early.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

式は正午に始まりますので、数分早めにお越しください。

Sense（1）

(intransitive) To begin, start.

Here the anthem doth commence:

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Sense（2）

(transitive) To begin to be, or to act as.

[…] he furnish’d me with a Gun, Cartouch-box, and Powder-horn, &c. and thus accouter’d I commenc’d Soldier.

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Sense（3）

(UK, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.

[…] I question whether the Formality of Commencing was used in that Age: inclining rather to the negative, that such Distinction of Graduates was then unknown […]

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

commences

（ present singular third-person ）

commencing

（ participle present ）

commenced

（ participle past ）

commenced

（ past ）

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