founder

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 7.97 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).

   The founder of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg.

2. noun A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation).

   a founder population

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

   a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types

5. noun A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
6. verb To flood with water and sink.
7. verb To fall; to stumble and go lame.
8. verb To fail; to miscarry.

Similar words

give give way founding father beginner father break fall in collapse flop fall through

Often followed by

of and was member in members or is had

Word family

found founded foundered foundering founders founding