found

See also: Found.

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: found, IPA(key): /faʊnd/
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  • Rhymes: -aʊnd

Etymology 1

See find.

Noun

found

  1. Food and lodging, board.
    • 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram‎, 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.

Verb

found

  1. simple past tense and past participle of find
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old French founder (Modern French: fonder), from Latin fundāre. Confer with fund.

Verb

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

  1. To begin building.
  2. To start some type of organization or company.
    • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎:
      “… 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. …”
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References

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

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Middle French fondre, from Latin fundere.

Verb

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

  1. To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
  2. To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
    • Milton
      Whereof to found their engines.
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Etymology 4

Noun

found (plural founds)

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

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