found
Pronunciation Verb
Synonyms
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Pronunciation Verb
- Simple past tense and past participle of find
- (past participle) discovered; repertitious (by chance or upon advice, obs.)
found (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Food and lodging; board.
found (founds, present participle founding; past and past participle founded) (transitive)
- (transitive) To start (an institution or organization).
- (transitive) To begin building.
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#English|founded | |
| plural | found | ||
| subjunctive | found | ||
| imperative | found | — | |
| participle> participles | founding | founded | |
| * Archaic or obsolete. | |||
- (to start organization) establish
- French: fonder
- German: errichten, gründen
- Italian: fondare
- Portuguese: fundar
- Russian: осно́вывать
- Spanish: fundar
found (founds, present participle founding; past and past participle founded) (transitive)
- To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
- To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- Whereof to found their engines.
found (plural founds)
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