"beginnings" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the start or origin of something, as in the following example sentence: The college was the beginning of my exciting journey into higher education.
From humble beginnings as a low-budget revenge thriller shot guerrilla-style on country lanes outside Melbourne, George Miller's post-apocalyptic saga is preparing for its biggest and most artfully boisterous outing yet in Mad Max: Fury Road.
He began shaking, the beginnings of a panic attack.
Born from the labour movement in 1999, the MDC has never been allowed to forget that white people were conspicuous at its beginnings.
Seeing the beginnings of my bag in its raw form is thrilling.
Two particularly wonderful examples from this collection are "Complicity", about the delicate beginnings of a love affair, and "East Wind", about a relationship between an estate agent and a foreign waitress.
The statement called for developed countries to help scale up financial aid for developing countries to deal with climate change, and for Paris to agree the beginnings of a strategy to make countries more resilient to the extreme weather a warming world is expected to bring.
Just under the skin, another Mumbai moves and slides – and it can be the very magnetism of the gods that may disrupt the beginnings of the computer age.
Rosie: We've always been the senior management but we're in the very beginnings of creating a board now – it's such a process!
Talk of new beginnings just as Gove, Osborne and IDS get their brogues back under the cabinet table.
From humble beginnings in rickety wooden huts, GCHQ has become the keystone of Britain's spy agencies, and its "doughnut" headquarters in Cheltenham is probably the most remarkable building ever constructed in the UK.
Will she stay true to her radical beginnings if Plaid gains more power and visibility?
