Noun

(en noun)

The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.

The time of Henry VII ... nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed modern history. -allam.

1800 , William Took, View of the Russian empire during the reign of Catharine the Second

:: Yet from the commencement of mining there have been unnoble proprietors of mines, who belonged to the class of merchants.

The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.

A graduation ceremony, from a school, college or university.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of arriving or something that has arrived.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.

The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Out of the gloom , passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}