2. Verb. (third-person singular of founder) ¹
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Definition of Founders
1. founder [v] - See also: founder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Founders
Literary usage of Founders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1907)
"It is very remarkable that, as K. Richard's Progenitors are reckoned founders
and Patrons of the said College of great Univ. Hall, so in K. Hen. ..."
2. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"Tait the names of the founders of his science call up the ideas, not so much of
the scientific ... Of the three founders of theoretical thermodynamics, ..."
3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1891)
"founders OF CHICAGO.—AS Hubbard of San Francisco, Cal., secretary of the ...
Having met and known personally a large number of the founders of that city he ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"Still, this knowing life only in the small, it will be found, is really anything
but meanness. THE founders From <Work and Play> THERE is a class of writers ..."
5. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1902)
"He was exposing an error which had misled the ablest founders of the most ...
At any rate it was true, as he said, that its founders, while intending to ..."
6. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"!for ю tho Lacedaemonians were tho founders of tho town, every ono went to it
with confidence, thinking it a placo of security. ..."
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