Word Helper: An Associative Language Search Engine

Synonyms

  1. first

Words Described by "Initial"

  1. conditions
  2. stages
  3. state
  4. stage
  5. period
  6. phase
  7. value
  8. position
  9. values
  10. step

Categorically Similar

  1. ipo
  2. consonant
  3. offering
  4. phase
  5. stages
  6. assault

What Google Knows

In a written or published work, an initial is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. The word is derived from the Latin initialis, which means standing at the beginning.

Related Definition

  1. initial:

    adj Chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin.

    adj Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position; especially said of the first letter of a word.

    n The first letter of a word or a name.

    n In plural, the first letter of each word of a person's full name considered as a unit.

    n (typography, calligraphy) A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.

    n (phonology) onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.

    v (transitive) To sign one's initial(s), as an abbreviated signature.


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