founder
noun
[ ˈfaʊndə ]
• a person who manufactures articles of cast metal; the owner or operator of a foundry.
• "an iron founder"
Origin:
Middle English: probably from Old French fondeur, from fondre (see found3).
founder
noun
• a person who establishes an institution or settlement.
• "he was the founder of modern Costa Rica"
Similar:
originator,
creator,
initiator,
institutor,
instigator,
organizer,
father,
founding father,
prime mover,
architect,
engineer,
designer,
deviser,
developer,
pioneer,
author,
planner,
framer,
inventor,
mastermind,
maker,
producer,
builder,
constructor,
begetter,
establisher,
founder
verb
• (of a ship) fill with water and sink.
• "six drowned when the yacht foundered off the Cornish coast"
Similar:
sink,
go to the bottom,
go down,
be lost at sea,
submerge,
capsize,
run aground,
be swamped,
go to Davy Jones's locker,
• (of a horse or its rider) stumble or fall from exhaustion, lameness, etc.
• "some of their horses foundered and damaged themselves in the stones of the riverbed"
Similar:
stumble,
trip,
trip up,
lose one's balance,
lose/miss one's footing,
slip,
pitch,
stagger,
lurch,
totter,
fall,
fall down,
fall over,
fall headlong,
tumble,
topple,
sprawl,
go lame,
collapse,
founder
noun
• laminitis in horses, ponies, or other hoofed animals.
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘knock to the ground’): from Old French fondrer, esfondrer ‘submerge, collapse’, based on Latin fundus ‘bottom, base’.
founder
verb
• make (someone) very cold.
• "it would founder you out there"
Origin:
mid 16th century: from founder3, influenced by obsolete found ‘to chill or numb with cold’.
