founding

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaʊndɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ

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.

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?

founding (not comparable)

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

   The founding fathers of our country.

• founding father
• founding member
• founding mother

• fonduing