/ˈfæʊ̯nd/ Southern US, Midland US, Mid-Atlantic US, New York City, Australia, New Zealand, /aʊ̯/-fronting
Etymology
See find.
Meanings
(uncountable) Food and lodging; board.
He moves north through small settlements and farms, working for day wages and found. 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, page 5:
I'll only give you the usual payment—say five hundred dollars a year, and found." / "And—what?" / "Found—that is, board, you know, and clothing, of course, also. 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
/ˈfæʊ̯nd/ Southern US, Midland US, Mid-Atlantic US, New York City, Australia, New Zealand, /aʊ̯/-fronting
Etymology
From Middle English founden, from Old French founder (Modern French: fonder), from Latin fundāre. Compare fund.
Meanings
(transitive) To start (an institution or organization).
“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. …” 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
(transitive) To begin building.
(transitive) To use as a foundation; to base.
His Heir of Line in 1785 claimed the Dignity of Lord Spynie, founding the claim upon the Charter of 1590, but it being certain that a Dignity of the Peerage of Scotland could not, at least in the reign of James the Sixth, be granted by a Charter making no reference to a Seat in Parliament or the Dignity of a Lord of Parliament, Counsel abandoned the claim under the Charter and insisted that the other evidence sufficiently supported the claim of the Heir of Line. 1867, In the House of Lords. Supplemental Case on Behalf of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, on His Claim to the Dignity of Lord Kinloss in the Peerage of Scotland., page 13:
Being left alone with him after they had dined, he obſerved, that however ſtrongly he was convinced of Zeluco’s being the writer of the letter, yet as he had had the precaution to diſguiſe his hand-writing, it would be fruitleſs to found any legal proſecution upon that circumſtance. 1789 May 27, [John Moore], chapter XXII, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 203:
[…] being now out of print, I shall use the freedom to give an extract from it, and in an Appendix to this Pamphlet (No. II.), republish one of the Tables that Author refers to, which will shew the facts he founded his reasoning upon, and the nature of the deductions which were the result of his researches. 1827, [Alexander] Dirom, Remarks on Free Trade, and on the State of the British Empire, Edinburgh: […] Cadell & Co., […], Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, & Co., London, page 36:
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foundeth
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foundest
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Antonyms
abolish (antonym(s) of “to start organization”) · dissolve (antonym(s) of “to start organization”) · ruin (antonym(s) of “to begin building”)
tr kurmak (to start an organization) · ang staþolian (to start an organization) · ar أَسَّسَ (to start an organization) · ro funda (to begin building) · ro înființa (to begin building) · bg основавам (to begin building) · hu alapít (to start an organization) · ca fundar (to begin building) · da grundlægge (to start an organization) · ja 基礎を築く (to begin building) · sk založiť (to begin building) · hy հիմնել (to start an organization) · es fundar (to start an organization) · es fundar (to begin building) · da grundlægge (to begin building) · uk оснува́ти (to start an organization) · hy հիմքը դնել (to begin building) · sco foond (to start an organization) · ja 打ち立てる (to start an organization) · ro întemeia (to start an organization) · ar أَسَّسَ (to begin building) · pt fundar (to start an organization) · uk заснува́ти (to start an organization) · ro fonda (to start an organization) · be засно́ўваць (to start an organization) · ka საფუძვლის ჩაყრა (to begin building) · pl zbudować (to begin building) · egy g:r-grg (to start an organization) · pl zakładać (to start an organization) · be заснава́ць (to start an organization) · fr fonder (to start an organization) · es condir (disused) (to start an organization) · gd stèidhich (to start an organization) · de errichten (to begin building) · ang astemnian (to begin building) · cs založit (to begin building) · ko 설립하다 (to begin building) · ja 興す (to start an organization) · cmn 成立 (to begin building) · it fondare (to start an organization) · ka დაფუძვნება (to start an organization) · nl stichten (to start an organization) · no grunnlegge (to begin building) · ang gegrundweallian (to begin building) · de gründen (to begin building) · km បង្កើត (to begin building) · hy հիմքը գցել (to begin building) · tr temel atmak (to begin building) · ka დაფუძვნება (to begin building) · eo fondi (to start an organization) · bg базирам (To use as a foundation) · ang ġegrundweallian (to start an organization) · sv grunda (to start an organization) · uk осно́вувати (to start an organization) · be закла́сці (to start an organization) · ca fundar (to start an organization) · hy հիմնադրել (to start an organization) · zdj utsenga (to begin building) · cmn 設立 /设立 (to start an organization) · rup fundedz (to begin building) · sco foond (to begin building) · be заклада́ць (to start an organization) · hu megalapít (to start an organization) · ru основа́ть (to start an organization) · de gründen (to start an organization) · qu tiqsiy (to start an organization) · ko 설립하다 (to start an organization) · ja 設立する (to start an organization) · es instaurar (to start an organization) · bg създавам (to start an organization) · el ιδρύω (to start an organization) · uk засно́вувати (to start an organization) · fi perustaa (to begin building) · it fondare (to begin building) · fr fonder (to begin building) · ru учрежда́ть (to start an organization) · pl stworzyć (to begin building) · pl tworzyć (to begin building) · ro întemeia (to begin building) · qu tiksiy (to begin building) · oc fondar (to start an organization) · lv dibināt (to start an organization) · pl budować (to begin building) · ru осно́вывать (to start an organization) · hy ստեղծել (to start an organization) · km បង្កើត (to start an organization) · bg учредя́вам (to start an organization) · cmn 創設 /创设 (to begin building) · no grunnlegge (to start an organization) · ru осно́вывать (to begin building) · pt fundar (to begin building) · ru основа́ть (to begin building) · fi perustaa (to start an organization) · sk založiť (to start an organization) · pl założyć (to start an organization) · yi אַוועקשטעלן (to start an organization) · el θεμελιώνω (to begin building) · sv grundlägga (to begin building) · cs založit (to start an organization) · la fundō (to start an organization) · ru учреди́ть (to start an organization) · el συστήνω (to start an organization) · ko 수립하다 (to start an organization)
/ˈfæʊ̯nd/ Southern US, Midland US, Mid-Atlantic US, New York City, Australia, New Zealand, /aʊ̯/-fronting
Etymology
From Middle English founden, from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere. Cognate with Spanish fundir and hundir, and French fondre.
Meanings
(transitive) To melt, especially of metal or glass in an industrial setting.
(transitive) To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
Whereof to found their engines. 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC: