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The person who creates an organization or a company is known as the founder. Founder is also a verb meaning "fail miserably," which is something a company's founder hopes the company will never do.

As a noun, founder means "the beginner or originator of something." You might talk about the founder of a nation, the founder of club, or the founder of a website. As a verb, founder can mean “stumble,” like when you trip and fall, but more generally it means "collapse or fall apart." A sports team might founder by slumping on a ten-game losing streak; a ship that sinks in a bad storm can be said to have foundered at sea.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: founder

1	n	a person who founds or establishes some institution
2	v	sink below the surface
3	n	a worker who makes metal castings
4	n	inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: founder

n a person who founds or establishes some institution

Synonyms:: beginner, father, founding father

Examples:: Sir Walter Raleigh
English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618); Cecil John Rhodes
British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa; made a fortune in gold and diamond mining; helped colonize the territory now known as Zimbabwe; he endowed annual fellowships for British Commonwealth and United States students to study at Oxford University (1853-1902)

Types:: cofounder
one of a group of founders; coloniser, colonizer
someone who helps to found a colony; foundress
a woman founder

Type of:: conceiver, mastermind, originator
someone who creates new things

v sink below the surface

Type of:: go down, go under, settle, sink
go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned"

v break down, literally or metaphorically

Synonyms:: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, give, give way

: abandon, give up
stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims; burst, collapse
cause to burst

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; go off, implode
burst inward; buckle, crumple
fold or collapse; flop
fall loosely; break
curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves; sink, slide down, slump
fall or sink heavily

Type of:: change
undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature

v fail utterly; collapse

“The project foundered”

Synonyms:: fall flat, fall through, flop

Type of:: fail, go wrong, miscarry
be unsuccessful

v stumble and nearly fall

“the horses foundered”

Type of:: stumble, trip
miss a step and fall or nearly fall

n a worker who makes metal castings

Types:: bell founder
a person who casts metal bells

Type of:: skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker
a worker who has acquired special skills

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

Synonyms:: laminitis

Type of:: inflammation, redness, rubor
a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat

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