founding

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Standard Canadian) IPA^(key): /ˈfaʊ̯ndɪŋ/

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  • (Upper Midwestern US, Western US, Canada, pre-/ŋ/-tensing) IPA^(key): /ˈfaʊ̯ndiŋ/
• (Southern US, Midland US, Mid-Atlantic US, New York City, Australia, New Zealand, /aʊ̯/-fronting) IPA^(key): /ˈfæʊ̯ndɪŋ/
• (Pittsburgh, General South African, /aʊ̯/-monophthongization) IPA^(key): /ˈfaːndɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
• Hyphenation: foun‧ding

Verb

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 (countable and uncountable, plural foundings)

1. The establishment of an institution; initial creation.

   the founding of the republic

   the founding of a charity school

   • 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?

2. Metalworking, as carried out in a foundry.

   metal founding

Derived terms

• bellfounding
• brassfounding
• bronzefounding
• ironfounding
• typefounding

Translations

establishment of something

• Armenian: հիմնադրում (hy) (himnadrum)
• Dutch: oprichting (nl) f
• Finnish: perustaminen (fi)
• French: fondation (fr) f, création (fr) f
• German: Gründung (de) f
• Italian: costituzione (it) f, creazione (it) f, fondazione (it) f
• Polish: założenie (pl) n
• Spanish: fundación (es) f
• Swedish: grundande (sv) n

Adjective

founding (not comparable)

1. Who or that founds (establishes or starts) or founded.

   the founding fathers of our country

Derived terms

• founding father
• founding member
• founding mother

Translations

who or that founds or founded

• Czech: zakládající
• Finnish: perustaja-
• French: fondateur (fr)
• German: Gründungs-, gründend (de)
• Spanish: fundador (es)

Anagrams

• fonduing