found

UK/ˈfaʊ̯nd/US/ˈfaʊ̯nd/

verbB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — foundry sits at #11,160neutral

Other forms: founded, founding

To found is to set up an institution and provide for its beginning. Found a school.

The money is part of it, which is what separates founding from merely starting. To found something is recorded on the building, and a founder's name outlasts everything else about them.

Definitions of found

1verbfoundTo set up an institution and provide for its beginning.B2
“He founded the college and never saw it open.”

found is an action.

Where it comes from

Latin fundare, to lay a base, from fundus, the bottom; the same root gives fundamental and fund.

Proto-Indo-European
*ǵʰewd-
Latin
fundō
Old French
founder
Middle English
founden
English, today
found

From Middle English founden, from Old French founder (Modern French: fonder), from Latin fundō. Compare fund.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

found in the wild

Extraterrestrial meteorites have been found on the Moon and on Mars.
Meteorite
The code is often associated with response reason Not Found and is often referred to as page not found or file not found.
HTTP 404
As such, found objects can prompt philosophical reflection in the observer ranging from disgust to indifference to nostalgia to empathy.
Found object
There is usually some degree of modification of the found object, although not always to the extent that it cannot be recognized, as is the case with readymades.
Found object
Sometimes, despite a defendant being found guilty, the court may order that the defendant not be convicted.
Conviction

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the fundō family

fundamental fusion

found — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others

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