startword noun2 •A string of letters that identifies the beginning of a valid sequence in a specified language.In fact, a set of metarules and a set of hyperrules is given whose power exceeds by far this example and only the choice of a specific hyperrule for the startword restricts it to this example. — 1981 •The first appearance of a genre in print.It was the translation of Ovid, Lucan, Seneca, and Virgil that gave English Elizabethan poetry the startword. — 1875 formsstartwords
