Founder
['faʊndə(r)] or ['faʊndɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a person who founds or establishes some institution; 'George Washington is the father of his country'.
(noun.) a worker who makes metal castings.
(verb.) stumble and nearly fall; 'the horses foundered'.
(verb.) sink below the surface.
Edited by Edith--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
(n.) One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.
(v. i.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
(v. i.) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
(v. i.) To fail; to miscarry.
(v. t.) To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.
(n.) A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.
(n.) An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder.
Edited by Bonita
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Originator, institutor, establisher, planter.[2]. Caster (of metals).
v. n. [1]. Sink (as a ship by filling with water), go to the bottom.[2]. Fail, miscarry.[3]. Trip, stumble, fall.
Edited by Annabel
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FOUND_and_SINK]
SYN:Author, instituter, {establishes_originator}, planter
ANT:Subverter, destroyer
Typist: Maxine
Definition
v.i. to go to the bottom: to fill with water and sink.—v.t. to cause to sink: to disable by injuring the feet (of a horse).—adj. Found′erous causing to founder.
Editor: Wendell
Examples
- Its founder was Clovis (481-511), who began as a small king in Belgium and ended with his southern frontiers nearly at the Pyrenees. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Gregory, not the founder but the apostle of the scientific method. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He is very generally regarded as the founder of modern Socialism; it was in connection with his work that the word socialism first arose (about 1835). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A charter of incorporation was granted in July, 1662; and, later, Charles II proclaimed himself founder and patron of the Royal Society for the advancement of natural science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Says you, Joseph, I have this day seen my earliest benefactor and the founder of my fortun's. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The teachings of this Lao Tse were later to become incorporated with the Taoist religion by Chen Tuan, the founder of modern Taoism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Reward of ingratitoode to his earliest benefactor, and founder of fortun's. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- There follows a history of the fathers and founders of the Hebrew nation, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So that among the founders of our science, next to the name of the great French Philosopher, Lavoisier, will stand in future ages the name of John Dalton, of Manchester. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- By these and other experiments this doubting disciple confi rmed Hutton's theory, and became one of the great founders of experim ental geology. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Plato, Zeno, Epicurus, Pythagoras--all founders of clubs. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The volume of _Plutarch's Lives_ which I possessed, contained the histories of the first founders of the ancient republics. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Doubtless the founders of our government, the majority of them at least, regarded the confederation of the colonies as an experiment. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Prendergast threw us over a chart, told us that we were shipwrecked mariners whose ship had foundered in Lat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- On the 16th, he was parted from us by a storm; I heard since my return, that his ship foundered, and none escaped but one cabin boy. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The little model was in good preservation up to the year 1900, when, being shipped to the Paris Exposition, it was lost, the steamer that carried it foundering in mid-ocean. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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