found
verb /faʊnd/
/faʊnd/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they found | /faʊnd/ /faʊnd/ |
| he / she / it founds | /faʊndz/ /faʊndz/ |
| past simple founded | /ˈfaʊndɪd/ /ˈfaʊndɪd/ |
| past participle founded | /ˈfaʊndɪd/ /ˈfaʊndɪd/ |
| -ing form founding | /ˈfaʊndɪŋ/ /ˈfaʊndɪŋ/ |
- found something to start something, such as an organization or an institution, especially by providing money synonym establish
- to found a club/company/school
- Her family founded the college in 1895.
- the founding members of the European Union
- He was a founding editor of the journal.
Extra ExamplesTopics Historyb2- He founded a new religion.
- He founded the company 20 years ago.
- found something to be the first to start building and living in a town or country
- The town was founded by English settlers in 1790.
- French settlers founded New Orleans.
- the founding generation of immigrants
- [usually passive] to base something on something
- be founded on something Their marriage was founded on love and mutual respect.
- found something (specialist) to melt metal and pour it into a mould; to make objects using this process
- past tense, past participle of find
Word Originsenses 1 to 3 Middle English: from Old French fonder, from Latin fundare, from fundus ‘bottom, base’. sense 4 early 16th cent.: from French fondre, from Latin fundere ‘melt, pour’.