founder

1. 1.

   inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse

   Synonymslaminitis

   Broaderinflammation
2. 2.

   a person who founds or establishes some institution

   “George Washington is the father of his country”

   Synonymsbeginnerfounding fatherfather

   Broaderoriginator

   Narrowercofoundercolonizerfoundress
3. 3.

   a worker who makes metal castings

   Broaderskilled worker

   Narrowerbell founder

Other forms of founder

plural

founders·

past tense

founderred·

present participle

founderring·

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 founder

What does founder mean?

founder means "fail utterly; collapse". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in founder?

founder has 2 syllables: foun-der. The stress falls on "foun". In IPA it is /ˈfaʊndɚ/.

What is another word for founder?

Close synonyms include fall through, fall flat, flop, collapse, fall in. 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.

Is founder a common word?

founder is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 founder?

1 word rhymes with founder. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.