Meanings
start, beginning, origin (spatially or temporally)
1545, Martin Luther, Biblia: das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrifft: Deudsch Auffs new zugericht, Moses I (Genesis) 1:1In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.
beginning; commencement; inception; incipience; initial; initiation; onset; opening; origin; outset; start
Der Anfang war schon lange vorbei.
Examples
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Im Anfang schuf Gott Himmel und Erde.In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Tom mochte Maria von Anfang an nicht.Tom didn't like Mary from the start.