founding

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of found
    So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry. 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343

noun

  1. The establishment of something.
    the founding of the republic
    Do foundings of transnational organizations appear to spur foundings of national organizations, or vice versa? 2005, Donatella Della Porta, Sidney G. Tarrow, Transnational Protest and Global Activism

adj

  1. Who or that founds (establishes or starts) or founded.
    The founding fathers of our country.

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