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Meaning founder meaning

What does founder mean?
Definitions in simple English

founder Noun

— A person who founds and establishes; a person who lays a foundation; an author; a person who starts something. — An iron worker who runs a blast furnace and the smelting process.

founder Verb

— To fill something with water and sink it. — To fall or stumble. — To fail; to miscarry.

founder

— noun (= father) a person who founds or establishes some institution George Washington is the father of his country — noun (= laminitis) inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse — noun a worker who makes metal castings — verb sink below the surface — verb stumble and nearly fall the horses foundered — verb fail utterly; collapse The project foundered — verb (= collapse, give, break) 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

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originator establisher sink creator initiator father pioneer inventor submerge fail collapse caster organizer laminitis constitutor beginner immerse go down founding father flop cave in break author unsuccessful submerse smelter promoter progenitor patriarch organiser moulder maker institutor give way give foundry hand flounder fall through fall in fall flat builder ancestor wreck trailblazer stranded sponsor source settle run aground root

Topics founder topics

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Conjugation founder conjugation

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founder · verb

Examples founder examples

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Simple sentences

The university bears the name of its founder.
Will Apple lose its mojo now that its visionary founder is dead?
Yesterday the unveiling of the founder's statue and the opening of the school building took place.
Nicolaus Copernicus is considered the founder of modern astronomy.
Who is the founder of Google Translate?
The founder died two months ago.
In the center of the university campus stands the statue of the founder.
Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft.
Mario says that Romulus is the founder of Rome.
I am a co-founder of the local stoat lover society.
Tom is the founder of stoatism, which is the philosophical view that everything is better with stoats.
Carl Gustav Jung, the founder of analytical psychology, always respected the religious convictions of his patients very much.

Movie subtitles

By contrast, it took the founder of the Ming dynasty 21 years to build a wall more than 20 miles long around his capital city, Nanjing.
I hope you founder with all hands.
The founder of the Fibberg Castle.
Go to our Founder's grave, Sister.
Nor did the French possess the Salic land until four hundred one-and-twenty years after defunction of King. (Laughter)..Pharamond, idly supposed the founder of this law.
This ship is going to founder.
If many Fenwickians resemble each other, this may be ascribed to the founder, who was in every way, the father of his country.
I'm gonna let you founder if you want to, but not the horses.
Thank you, Mr Chairman, for those kind words, but tell them the whole truth. founder, owner, editor and I also sweep out the place.
Looked like the statue of old Simeon Standing, the founder.
I'm the founder. I'm the Grand Wizard. What's our code word?
She'll founder in a light breeze.
Empires crumble, republics founder.
Founder and proprietor of a waxworks museum.
The current director, who was also the founder, was able to build it in a single generation. But strangely, no one has actually seen the director lately.
Dr Maxford, our founder and president, is at my side.
Founder of the National Association of Modern Abstainers.
I give you Mr. Scrooge, the founder of the feast.
But lift the rope only once the bell founder says so.
Do you know what I wanted to be before I was cajoled into being a carbon copy of the illustrious founder of this organisation?
Exactly five hundred years ago, Philip became the founder of our family. In commemoration of this auspicious event, I have prepared a little surprise for you.
I'm the founder. I'm the Grand Wizard.
Duke Red is the founder of the Party.
Now, this. - Our founder must have known when he wrote these seemingly contradictory rules.
Pharamond, idly supposed the founder of this law.
And Edward L. McKeever, the founder of International Projects.
You will fly to other planets in search of males to make the most perfect of them the founder of a new race.
I'm the founder.
Is this Nikola the founder's house?
And where's the house of Gavrila the founder?
Is your mum coming for Founder's Day?
Pablo picasso, the founder of modern art Without doubt the greatest abstract painter ever For the first time painting in motion.
Following Tokugawa Founder Ieyasu's lineage and his wishes. I will build a peaceful country for our people.
I am Thomasina Paine, founder and commander of the army of the resistance.
It's all based on Saint Nigella. Hanson's is the founder.
To the founder, it says.

News and current affairs

Back then, Kim Il-sung - the North's founder - faced economic collapse, diminution of his conventional military forces, and diplomatic isolation.
Rarely in history has a political movement been so deliberately set by its founder on a course toward chaos.
NEW YORK - Few politicians have garnered as many effusive public tributes after their death as Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's founder and long-serving former prime minister.
Our founder was a great constitutionalist, and Pakistan came into being through the vote.
I also sit on the board of 23andMe, co-founded by the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
Mediobanca, the financial institution long at the heart of Italian family capitalism, was struggling since the death of its founder Enrico Cuccia and the removal of the man he had designated as his heir apparent.
Ironically, Microsoft's founder and chairman, Bill Gates, has been an enthusiastic advocate of this view.
Both sides cite Moore's Law, named for Intel's co-founder, Gordon Moore, who noticed that the density of transistors on a chip could be doubled every 18 months.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has suggested that the documents could form the basis for prosecuting war crimes committed by US forces against Afghan civilians.
Many Muslims still condemn the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kamal, because he tried to modernize his country.
There are other areas, such as technology, in which someone like Apple's late founder, Steve Jobs, arguably delivers real innovation and quality, rather than just employing lawyers and lobbyists to maintain a monopoly position.
Today, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has a dream, too: he wants to provide Internet access to the world's five billion people who do not now have it.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has suggested that Internet access is not a high priority for the poorest countries.
One area is freeing itself from US hegemony and is thriving, but may founder if Chinese and Indian growth slows.
So I had vague thoughts that I might go into space sometime in 2011 - the year that Google co-founder Sergey Brin is (very) tentatively slated to go.
The daughter of a government clerk, Mayawati studied law and worked as a teacher before being spotted by the BSP's founder, the late Kanshi Ram, and groomed for political leadership.
Textbooks - pink for girls, blue for boys, each with different contents - emphasize the rules prescribed by Imam Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab, an eighteenth-century cleric and the founder of Wahhabism.
It then descended into scandal and acrimonious infighting between the party's president, Marine Le Pen, and its founder, her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen (who was ultimately expelled).
Unlike the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Khamenei lacks charisma and deep learning.
Hu Yaobang was a founder of the China Youth League, regarded as a relatively liberal institution in the People's Republic, who in the 1980's promoted political reforms and rehabilitated virtually all the victims of the Mao Zedong's purges.
NEW DELHI - Three recent events vividly illustrate the dilemmas of today's Pakistan, which are in many ways the same challenges faced by the country's founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, over six decades ago.
If you trusted the founder of Singapore and thought him legitimate, who better to trust than the founder's own son?
Many would regard Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's founder and longtime prime minister, as great, though he probably would have welcomed the opportunity to test his mettle in a larger arena.
The son of a renowned historian who served as the personal secretary of Zeev Jabotinski, the founder of the Zionist right, Netanyahu absorbed from childhood his father's interpretation of Jewish history as a series of tragedies.

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