Definitions for commence

commence com·mence

Spelling: [kuh-mens]
IPA: /kəˈmɛns/

Commence is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in commence (cceemmno).

Definitions for commence

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to begin; start.

Origin of commence

1250-1300; Middle English commencen Anglo-French, Middle French comencer Vulgar Latin *cominitiāre, equivalent to Latin com- com- + initiāre to begin; see Examples for commence

At four in the morning, we would turn out, and commence our work.

This weekend, the battle will commence when the “Moms” and their allies demonstrate outside the NRA Convention in Indianapolis.

The office has come to me unsought; I commence its duties untrammeled.

It builds to a masquerade ball, in which Not Harry and the women don masks and commence flirting.

However, only days before early voting was to commence, a local judge ordered the polling station open.

But in order to commence rebuilding them from the ground up, the world must first put out the fires of this current epidemic.

In the mean time, the slaughter was about to commence on the other side.

Led by Johan van Griensven, the study will commence in Guinea in the next three weeks.

O, when will the reign of perfect charity, that "thinketh no evil," commence!

I never give up what I once commence, and I never fail in what I undertake!

Word Value for commence
Scrable

16

Words with friends

21

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