foundress

About 0.08 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A female founder (“one who founds or establishes”).
2. noun A female animal which establishes a colony.
3. noun A female founder (“one who founds or casts metals”).

Similar words

founding mother cofoundress matriarch founding member originatrix fundatrigenia proprietrix founder member proprietress foremother

Often followed by

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