Opening

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Open.

II. Opening ·noun Hence: A vacant place; an opportunity; as, an opening for business.

III. Opening ·noun A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole.

IV. Opening ·noun A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; as, oak openings.

V. Opening ·noun The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech.