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founding en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈfaʊ̯ndiŋ/ Upper Midwestern US, Western US, Canada, pre-/ŋ/-tensing
• /ˈfaʊ̯ndɪŋ/ (Canadian, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Standard)
• /ˈfaːndɪŋ/ Pittsburgh, General South African, /aʊ̯/-monophthongization
• (US) audio
• /ˈfæʊ̯ndɪŋ/ Southern US, Midland US, Mid-Atlantic US, New York City, Australia, New Zealand, /aʊ̯/-fronting
• (US) audio

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Who or that founds (establishes or starts) or founded.
   • the founding fathers of our country

Deriveds

founding mother · founding father · founding member

Translations (6)

es fundador (who or that founds or founded) · fi perustaja- (who or that founds or founded) · de gründend (who or that founds or founded) · fr fondateur (who or that founds or founded) · de Gründungs- (who or that founds or founded) · cs zakládající (who or that founds or founded)

founding en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈfaʊ̯ndiŋ/ Upper Midwestern US, Western US, Canada, pre-/ŋ/-tensing
• /ˈfaʊ̯ndɪŋ/ (Canadian, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Standard)
• /ˈfaːndɪŋ/ Pittsburgh, General South African, /aʊ̯/-monophthongization
• (US) audio
• /ˈfæʊ̯ndɪŋ/ Southern US, Midland US, Mid-Atlantic US, New York City, Australia, New Zealand, /aʊ̯/-fronting
• (US) audio

Meanings

1. The establishment of something.
   • 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:
   • the founding of the republic

Forms

Deriveds

typefounding · bronzefounding · ironfounding · brassfounding · bellfounding

Translations (12)

fr création (establishment of something) · nl oprichting (establishment of something) · es fundación (establishment of something) · fr fondation (establishment of something) · fi perustaminen (establishment of something) · it creazione (establishment of something) · sv grundande (establishment of something) · pl założenie (establishment of something) · it fondazione (establishment of something) · it costituzione (establishment of something) · de Gründung (establishment of something) · hy հիմնադրում (establishment of something)

founding en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈfaʊ̯ndiŋ/ Upper Midwestern US, Western US, Canada, pre-/ŋ/-tensing
• /ˈfaʊ̯ndɪŋ/ (Canadian, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Standard)
• /ˈfaːndɪŋ/ Pittsburgh, General South African, /aʊ̯/-monophthongization
• (US) audio
• /ˈfæʊ̯ndɪŋ/ Southern US, Midland US, Mid-Atlantic US, New York City, Australia, New Zealand, /aʊ̯/-fronting
• (US) audio

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of found
   form 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: