found

English

Pronunciation

enPR: found, IPA^(key): /faʊnd/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -aʊnd

Etymology 1

See find.

Verb

found

simple past and past participle of find

Synonyms

(past participle): discovered; repertitious (by chance or upon advice, obs.)

Derived terms

Noun

found (uncountable)

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.
- 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, page 5:
  He moves north through small settlements and farms, working for day wages and found.

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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

To start (an institution or organization).
- 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. …”
To begin building. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
To use as a foundation; to base.
- 1789 May 27, [John Moore], chapter XXII, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 203:
  Being left alone with him after they had dined, he obſerved, that however ſtrongly he was convinced of Zeluco’s being the writer of the letter, yet as he had had the precaution to diſguiſe his hand-writing, it would be fruitleſs to found any legal proſecution upon that circumſtance.
- 1827, [Alexander] Dirom, Remarks on Free Trade, and on the State of the British Empire, Edinburgh: […] Cadell & Co., […], Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, & Co., London, page 36:
  […] being now out of print, I shall use the freedom to give an extract from it, and in an Appendix to this Pamphlet (No. II.), republish one of the Tables that Author refers to, which will shew the facts he founded his reasoning upon, and the nature of the deductions which were the result of his researches.
- 1867, In the House of Lords. Supplemental Case on Behalf of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, on His Claim to the Dignity of Lord Kinloss in the Peerage of Scotland., page 13:
  His Heir of Line in 1785 claimed the Dignity of Lord Spynie, founding the claim upon the Charter of 1590, but it being certain that a Dignity of the Peerage of Scotland could not, at least in the reign of James the Sixth, be granted by a Charter making no reference to a Seat in Parliament or the Dignity of a Lord of Parliament, Counsel abandoned the claim under the Charter and insisted that the other evidence sufficiently supported the claim of the Heir of Line.

Conjugation

Conjugation of found

infinitive	(to) found
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	found	founded
2nd-person singular	found, foundest^†	founded, foundedst^†
3rd-person singular	founds, foundeth^†	founded
plural	found	founded

subjunctive	found	founded

imperative	found	—

participles	founding	founded

^†Archaic or obsolete.

Synonyms

(to start organization): establish

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “to begin building”): ruin
(antonym(s) of “to start organization”): dissolve, abolish

Derived terms

new-founded

Related terms

Translations

to start an organization

Arabic: أَسَّسَ (ar) (ʔassasa)
Armenian: հիմնադրել (hy) (himnadrel), ստեղծել (hy) (steġcel), հիմնել (hy) (himnel)
Belarusian: засно́ўваць impf (zasnóŭvacʹ), заснава́ць pf (zasnavácʹ), заклада́ць impf (zakladácʹ), закла́сці pf (zaklásci)
Bulgarian: учредявам (bg) (učredjavam), създавам (bg) (sǎzdavam)
Catalan: fundar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 設立／设立 (zh) (shèlì)
Czech: založit (cs)
Danish: grundlægge (da)
Dutch: stichten (nl)
Egyptian:

(grg)
Esperanto: fondi (eo)
Finnish: perustaa (fi)
French: fonder (fr)
Georgian: დაფუძვნება (dapuʒvneba)
German: gründen (de)
Greek: ιδρύω (el) (idrýo), συστήνω (el) (systíno)
Hungarian: alapít (hu), megalapít (hu)
Italian: fondare (it)
Japanese: 興す (ja) (okosu), 打ち立てる (ja) (uchitateru), 設立する (ja) (setsuritsu suru)
Khmer: បង្កើត (km) (bɑŋkaət)
Korean: 설립하다 (ko) (seolliphada), 수립하다 (ko) (suriphada)
Latin: fundō
Latvian: dibināt
Norwegian: grunnlegge
Occitan: fondar (oc)
Old English: ġegrundweallian, staþolian
Polish: założyć (pl), zakładać (pl)
Portuguese: fundar (pt)
Quechua: tiqsiy
Romanian: întemeia (ro), fonda (ro)
Russian: осно́вывать (ru) impf (osnóvyvatʹ), основа́ть (ru) pf (osnovátʹ), учрежда́ть (ru) impf (učreždátʹ), учреди́ть (ru) pf (učredítʹ)
Scots: foond
Scottish Gaelic: stèidhich
Slovak: založiť
Spanish: fundar (es)
Swedish: grunda (sv)
Turkish: kurmak (tr)
Ukrainian: засно́вувати impf (zasnóvuvaty), заснува́ти pf (zasnuváty), осно́вувати impf (osnóvuvaty), оснува́ти pf (osnuváty)
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: אַוועקשטעלן (avekshteln)

to begin building

Arabic: أَسَّسَ (ar) (ʔassasa)
Armenian: հիմքը դնել (himkʻə dnel), հիմքը գցել (hy) (himkʻə gcʻel)
Aromanian: fundedz
Bulgarian: основавам (bg) (osnovavam)
Catalan: fundar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 成立 (zh) (chénglì), 創設／创设 (zh) (chuàngshè)
Czech: založit (cs)
Danish: grundlægge (da)
Finnish: perustaa (fi)
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: 설립하다 (ko) (seolliphada)
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
Slovak: založiť
Spanish: fundar (es)
Swedish: grundlägga (sv)
Turkish: temel atmak (tr)
Volapük: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. 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 (sh)
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} fundar (es), ^{(please verify)} instaurar (es)
Swedish: ^{(please verify)} grunda (sv)

References

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

Etymology 3

From Middle English founden, from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere. Cognate with Spanish fundir and hundir, and French fondre.

Verb

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

To melt, especially of metal or glass in an industrial setting.
To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
  Whereof to found their engines.

Related terms

Translations

melt — see melt

Noun

found (plural not attested)

(glassblowing) The period of time when a furnace is at its hottest; the interval in which the furnace is meant to fully melt glass.

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

found (plural founds)

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

Anagrams

fondu