Definitions for founder
ˈfaʊn dərfounder

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. laminitis, founder(noun)

   inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse

2. founder, beginner, founding father, father(noun)

   a person who founds or establishes some institution

   "George Washington is the father of his country"

3. founder(verb)

   a worker who makes metal castings

4. fall through, fall flat, founder, flop(verb)

   fail utterly; collapse

   "The project foundered"

5. founder(verb)

   sink below the surface

6. collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder(verb)

   break down, literally or metaphorically

   "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"

7. founder(verb)

   stumble and nearly fall

   "the horses foundered"

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Founder(noun)

   one who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows

2. Founder(noun)

   one who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types

3. Founder(verb)

   to become filled with water, and sink, as a ship

4. Founder(verb)

   to fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse

5. Founder(verb)

   to fail; to miscarry

6. Founder(verb)

   to cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him

7. Founder(noun)

   a lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh

8. Founder(noun)

   an inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder

Origin: [OF. fondrer to fall in, cf. F. s'effondrer, fr. fond bottom, L. fundus. See Found to establish.]

Freebase(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Founder

   A founder is a person involved in the creation of an organization. Many times the organization is a business, although sometimes it is a non-profit, or even a religious organization.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Founder

   fownd′ėr, v.i. to go to the bottom: to fill with water and sink.—v.t. to cause to sink: to disable by injuring the feet (of a horse).—adj. Found′erous, causing to founder. [O. Fr. fondrer, to fall in, fond, bottom—L. fundus, bottom.]

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'founder' in Nouns Frequency: #2213

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of founder in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of founder in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of founder in a Sentence

1. Frederick W. Faber:

   The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

2. Josh Reeves:

   I’ve been called the values founder in the past, that’s what it’s all about.

3. Sigmund Freud:

   The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

4. Oliver Letwin:

   So long as bad moral attitudes remain, all efforts to improve the inner cities will founder.

5. Sigmund Freud, (Attributed):

   The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

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