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Definition founder

Etymology 1

From Old French fondeur, from Latin fund?tor.

Noun

founder (plural founders)

1. One who founds or establishes (especially said of a company, project, organisation, state)
2. (genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.

Etymology 2

From Middle French fondeur, from Latin fundo (“pour, melt, cast”)

Noun

founder (plural founders)

1. The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
2. One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.

Etymology 3

From Middle French fondrer (“send to the bottom”), from Latin fundus (“bottom”)

Verb

founder (third-person singular simple present founders, present participle foundering, simple past and past participle foundered)

1. (intransitive) Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
2. (intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
3. (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
4. (transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to fill and sink, as a ship.
5. (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.

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