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{
"term": "found",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "found",
"heSheIt": "founds"
},
"pastSimple": "founded",
"pastParticiple": "founded",
"ingForm": "founding"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to start something, such as an organization or an institution, especially by providing money",
"sensetop": "found something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "to found a club/company/school"
},
{
"text": "Her family founded the college in 1895."
},
{
"text": "the **founding members** of the European Union"
},
{
"text": "He was a founding editor of the journal."
},
{
"text": "He founded a new religion."
},
{
"text": "She founded the company 20 years ago."
}
],
"synonyms": "establish",
"topics": ["History"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to be the first to start building and living in a town or country",
"sensetop": "found something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The town was founded by English settlers in 1790."
},
{
"text": "French settlers founded New Orleans."
},
{
"text": "the founding generation of immigrants"
}
],
"topics": ["History"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to base something on something",
"sensetop": "be founded on something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Their marriage was founded on love and mutual respect.",
"contextForm": "be founded on something"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to melt metal and pour it into a mould; to make objects using this process",
"sensetop": "found something",
"labels": "(specialist)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/faʊnd/",
"audio": "fo/found/found__gb_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/faʊndz/",
"audio": "fo/found/founds__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfaʊndɪd/",
"audio": "fo/found/founded__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfaʊndɪŋ/",
"audio": "fo/found/founding__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/faʊnd/",
"audio": "fo/found/found__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/faʊndz/",
"audio": "fo/found/founds__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfaʊndɪd/",
"audio": "fo/found/founded__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfaʊndɪŋ/",
"audio": "fo/found/founding__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "senses 1 to 3 Middle English: from Old French fonder, from Latin fundare, from fundus ‘bottom, base’. sense 4 early 16th cent.: from French fondre, from Latin fundere ‘melt, pour’."
}