founding father

Questions about founding father

What does founding father mean?

founding father means "a member of the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for founding father?

Close synonyms include founder, beginner, father. 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 founding father a common word?

founding father is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.