Founder Definition

foundər

foundered, foundering, founders

verb

foundered, foundering, founders

To fill with water, as during a storm, and sink.

Webster's New World

To cave in; sink.

The platform swayed and then foundered.

American Heritage

To become stuck as in soft ground; bog down.

Webster's New World

(intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.

Wiktionary

To cause to founder.

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noun

founders

Webster's New World

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

Wiktionary

A person who founds, or establishes.

Webster's New World

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A person who founds, or casts, metals, glass, etc.

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Other Word Forms of Founder

Singular:

founder

Plural:

Middle English foundren to sink to the ground from Old French fondrer from Vulgar Latin funderāre from fundus *funder- bottom from Latin fundus fund-

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Middle French fondrer (“send to the bottom”), from Latin fundus (“bottom”)

From Wiktionary
From Middle French fondeur, from Latin fundo (“pour, melt, cast”)

From Wiktionary
From Old French fondeur, from Latin fundātor.

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