found

Meanings

Verb

• Past of find
• To start (an institution or organization).
• To begin building.
• To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
• To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.

Noun

• Food and lodging; board.
• A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.

Related

Similar words

• discovered; repertitious
• establish

Opposite words

• ruin
• dissolve, abolish

Origin

• See find.
• From Middle English founden, from Old French founder (Modern French: fonder), from Latin fundō. Compare fund.
• From Middle English founden, from Old French fondre, from Latin fundō. Cognate with Spanish fundir and hundir.