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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
See find.
Verb[edit]
found
- simple past tense and past participle of find
Synonyms[edit]
- (past participle): discovered; repertitious (by chance or upon advice, obs.)
Derived terms[edit]
- found art
- found footage
- found literature
- found music
- found object
- found poetry
- lost and found
- unfound
Noun[edit]
found (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Food and lodging; board.
- 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
- 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.
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English founden, from Old French founder (Modern French: fonder), from Latin fundāre. Compare fund.
Verb[edit]
found (third-person singular simple present founds, present participle founding, simple past and past participle founded) (transitive)
- (transitive) To start (an institution or organization).
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad[2]:
- “ […] 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. …”
- (transitive) To begin building. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of found
infinitive | (to) found | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | found | founded | |
2nd-person singular | found, foundest* | founded, foundedst* | |
3rd-person singular | founds, foundeth* | founded | |
plural | found | ||
subjunctive | found | ||
imperative | found | — | |
participles | founding | founded | |
* Archaic or obsolete. |
Synonyms[edit]
- (to start organization): establish
Antonyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to start an organization
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to begin building
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References[edit]
- Oxford Online Dictionary, found
- WordNet 3.1: A Lexical Database for English, Princeton University
Etymology 3[edit]
From Middle English founden, from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere. Cognate with Spanish fundir and hundir.
Verb[edit]
found (third-person singular simple present founds, present participle founding, simple past and past participle founded) (transitive)
- To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
- To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- Whereof to found their engines.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
melt — see melt
Etymology 4[edit]
Noun[edit]
found (plural founds)
Anagrams[edit]
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