founding

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaʊndɪŋ/
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  • Rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ

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founding

  1. present participle and gerund of found
    • 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
      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.

Noun

founding (plural foundings)

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

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Adjective

founding (not comparable)

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

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