Commencement vs Starting - What's the difference?
commencement | starting |
The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
:: 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.
As nouns the difference between commencement and starting
is that commencement is the first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start while starting is the act of something that starts.As a verb starting is
.commencement
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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