Foundation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of founding, especially the establishment of an institution with provisions for future maintenance.
  • n. The basis on which a thing stands, is founded, or is supported. See Synonyms at base1.
  • n. Funds for the perpetual support of an institution; an endowment.
  • n. An institution founded and supported by an endowment.
  • n. A foundation garment.
  • n. A cosmetic base.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
  • n. That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis; underbuilding.
  • n. The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.
  • n. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
  • n. That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
  • n. Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
  • n. That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis.
  • n. The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course (see Base course (a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.
  • n. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
  • n. That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of founding, originating, or beginning to raise or build; the act of establishing.
  • n. The solid ground or substructure on which the walls of a building rest; also, the lowest division of the building or wall, which is generally below the surface of the ground.
  • n. Hence The basis or groundwork of anything; that on which anything stands and by which it is supported or confirmed.
  • n. A fund invested for a benevolent or charitable purpose; a donation or legacy for the support of an institution, as a school or hospital, or of some specific object, as a college professorship, a ward in a hospital, etc.; an endowment.
  • n. That which is founded or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
  • n. In crochet, knitting, etc., the first stitches put upon the needles, to which all that follows is secured.
  • n. Same as foundation-muslin and -net.
  • n. In apiculture, a sheet of wax, artificially shaped to resemble the foundation of a comb, attached to the slats or bars of a hive, or placed in a honey-frame, to induce the bees to build combs where desired; a guide-comb.
  • n. In ship-building, any part of a ship's structure which is built up or specially reinforced to support heavy weights, as engines and boilers, turrets, guns, boat-cranes, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. lowest support of a structure
  • n. an institution supported by an endowment
  • n. the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
  • n. the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
  • n. education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge
  • n. a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body
  • n. the basis on which something is grounded
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    education   
    Cross Reference
    endowment    basis    reason    old foundation   
    Variant
    base   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    groundwork    basis    endowment    college    fellowship    monastery    church   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    basis    principle    conception    aspect    establishment    advantage    importance    concept    support    ground