found

1. 1.

   food and lodging provided in addition to money

   “they worked for $30 and found”

   Broaderwage

1. 1.

   come upon unexpectedly or after searching

   “found art”

   “the lost-and-found department”

   Antonymslost

   Similarrecovered

Other forms of found

plural

founds·

past tense

founded·

present participle

founding·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about found

What does found mean?

found means "set up or found". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in found?

found has 1 syllable: found. In IPA it is /ˈfaʊnd/.

What is another word for found?

Close synonyms include establish, set up, launch, establish, plant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of found?

The recorded antonyms are lost.

Is found a common word?

found is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with found?

3 words rhyme with found. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.