founder meaning
EN
[ˈfaʊndɚ] [-aʊndə(ɹ)] 
US WFounder
- Founder (Fod.) or Founders may refer to:
- Entrepreneur, the starter of a private or public company
- Philanthropist, the starter of a charity
- Founding Fathers - see list of national founders
- Founder, a metallurgist who operates a foundry
- Founder, a hoof ailment caused by Laminitis
- Founder (IRC), management status for Internet Relay Chat
- Founders (Star Trek), a subrace of the fictional Changeling race
- To founder/foundering, a nautical term for shipwrecking
- The Founder (newspaper), the student newspaper at Royal Holloway, University of London
- NounPLfounders
- One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something originates; one who endows.
- (genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.
- The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
- a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types
- One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom something originates; one who endows.
- VerbSGfoundersPRfounderingPT, PPfoundered
- (intransitive) Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
- (intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
- (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
- (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
- (intransitive) Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- But masters of worlds wisedome and their founder haue ydamned it for heresie and for error.
- Also on Tuesday, the founder of Adelphia Communications, John J. Rigas, left, and his son Timothy, are expected to be resentenced in the accounting scandal that led to the company’s collapse.
- Both these English Plutarchs are here, two folios printed at London in 1657, and they once belonged to William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and have his book-plates.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of founder in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Nouns
- en founders
- en foundery
- en foundered
- en foundereth
- en founderies
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "founder" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.