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# founder

«founder» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who starts a school, company, club, charity or city** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (founder, founders); verb (founder, founders, foundered, foundering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who starts a school, company, club, charity or city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/founder/#m1)

2) (verb) Of a ship: to fill with water and sink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/founder/#m2)

3) (verb) Of a plan: to fail or come to nothing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/founder/#m3)

4) (verb) Of a horse: to go lame, or to stumble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/founder/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In history it names the person who began something: «the founder of the school». In stories at sea, a ship that founders is sinking. In business news, plans founder when they fail. Phrases: founder of, co-founder, Founder's Day, founder on the rocks.

### examples

- The founder of our school was a kind teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/founder/#x1)
- Every year we celebrate Founder's Day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/founder/#x2)
- She is the co-founder of a children's charity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/founder/#x3)
- The little boat foundered in the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/founder/#x4)
- Their plan foundered because nobody had enough money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/founder/#x5)
- The founder of the club still comes to every meeting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/founder/#x6)
- The Romans looked upon him as their special protector, and declared him to have been the father of Romulus and Remus, the founders of their city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/founder/#x7)

### note

Related: found (to start something), foundation. Do not confuse «founder» (sink, fail) with «flounder» (to struggle clumsily; also a flat fish). The noun is common; the verb is mostly in stories and the news.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «founder» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/founder/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.