found

See also: Found.

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: found, IPA^(key): /faʊnd/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aʊnd

Etymology 1

see find.

Noun

found

1. 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.

Verb

found

1. simple past tense and past participle of find

Derived terms

• found footage
• lost and found
• unfound

Etymology 2

From Old French founder (Modern French: fonder), from Latin fundāre. Confer with fund.

Verb

found (third-person singular simple present founds, present participle founding, simple past and past participle founded) (transitive)

1. To begin building.
2. To start some type of organization or company.
   • 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. …”

Conjugation

Conjugation of found

infinitive	(to) found
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	found	founded
2nd person singular	found, foundest1
3rd person singular	founds, foundeth1
plural	found
subjunctive	found
imperative	found	—
participles	founding	founded
1) Archaic or obsolete.

Related terms

• foundation
• founder

Synonyms

• (to start organization): establish

Antonyms

• (to begin building): ruin
• (to start organization): dissolve, abolish

Translations

to begin building

• Armenian: հիմքը դնել (himkʿə dnel), հիմքը գցել (himkʿə gcʿel)
• Aromanian: fundedz
• Bulgarian: основавам (bg) (osnovavam)
• Catalan: fundar (ca)
• Czech: založit (cs)
• Danish: grundlægge (da)
• French: fonder (fr)
• Georgian: საფუძვლის ჩაყრა (sapuʒvlis čaq̇ra), დაფუძვნება (dapuʒvneba)
• German: errichten (de), gründen (de)
• Greek: θεμελιώνω (el) (themelióno)
• Italian: fondare (it)
• Japanese: 基礎を築く (ja) (kiso wo kizuku)
• Khmer: បង្កើត (km) (bɑŋkaət)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can

• Ngazidja Comorian: utsenga
• Norwegian: grunnlegge
• Old English: astemnian, gegrundweallian
• Polish: budować (pl), zbudować (pl), tworzyć (pl), stworzyć (pl)
• Portuguese: fundar (pt)
• Quechua: tiksiy
• Romanian: funda (ro), întemeia (ro), înființa (ro)
• Russian: осно́вывать (ru) impf (osnóvyvatʹ), основа́ть (ru) pf (osnovátʹ)
• Scots: foond
• Spanish: fundar (es)
• Swedish: grundlägga (sv)
• Turkish: temel atmak (tr)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can

to start organization

• Armenian: հիմնադրել (hy) (himnadrel), ստեղծել (hy) (stełcel), հիմնել (hy) (himnel)
• Bulgarian: учредявам (bg) (učredjavam), създавам (bg) (sǎzdavam)
• Catalan: fundar (ca)
• Czech: založit (cs)
• Danish: grundlægge (da)
• Dutch: stichten (nl)
• Finnish: perustaa (fi)
• French: fonder (fr)
• Georgian: დაფუძვნება (dapuʒvneba)
• German: gründen (de)
• Greek: ιδρύω (el) (idrýo), συστήνω (el) (systíno)
• Italian: fondare (it)
• Japanese: 興す (okosu), 打ち立てる (uchitateru), 設立する (ja) (setsuritsu suru)
• Khmer: បង្កើត (km) (bɑŋkaət)

• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: grunnlegge
• Polish: założyć (pl), zakładać (pl)
• Portuguese: fundar (pt)
• Quechua: tiqsiy
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: осно́вывать (ru) impf (osnóvyvatʹ), основа́ть (ru) pf (osnovátʹ)
• Scots: foond
• Scottish Gaelic: stèidhich
• Spanish: fundar (es)
• Swedish: grunda (sv)
• Turkish: kurmak (tr)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} fondi (eo)
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} asutama
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} osnovati

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} fundar (es), ^{(please verify)} instaurar
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} grunda

References

• Oxford Online Dictionary, found
• WordNet 3.1: A Lexical Database for English, Princeton University

Etymology 3

Borrowing from Middle French fondre, from Latin fundere.

Verb

found (third-person singular simple present founds, present participle founding, simple past and past participle founded) (transitive)

1. To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
2. To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
   • Milton

     Whereof to found their engines.

Related terms

• foundry

Translations

melt — see melt

Etymology 4

Noun

found (plural founds)

1. A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923 in Project Gutenberg: last · here · thought · #139: found · people · still · just

Anagrams

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