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Definition of Founding father

1. Noun. A member of the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787.

2. Noun. A person who founds or establishes some institution. "George Washington is the father of his country"

Definition of Founding father

1. Noun. (chiefly US) A member of the convention that drafted the United States constitution. ¹

2. Noun. A man who founded something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Founding Father

founder founder cell founder effect founder effects founder principle foundered founderies foundering founderous founders

foundershaft foundery foundherentism foundherentist founding founding father (current term) founding member founding members foundings foundling

foundling hospital foundling wheel foundlings foundress foundresses foundries foundry foundry proof foundryman foundryman's fever

Literary usage of Founding father

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture, 1790-1990 by Nian-Sheng Huang (1994)
"... of drinking and drunkards and his gruesome reports of crime scenes, a French scholar added that he was a "founding father of American humor. ..."

2. Women and the Glorious Qur'an: An Analytical Study of Women-related Verses by Gunawan Adnan (2004)
"... to learn with Imam Malik bin Anas, who is well-known as founding father of ... He was the founding father of ..."

3. Columbus, Ohio: Photographic Portrait by Randall Lee Schieber (2007)
"38 founding father of Columbus Lucas Sullivant, a young surveyor from Virginia, founded a permanent settlement on the west ..."

4. James Bowdoin and the Patriot Philosophers by Frank Edward Manuel (2004)
"House of Bowdoin with the clan of the founding father of the colony. Thomas Win- throp in his turn became a Fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. ..."

5. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson by Orestes Augustus Brownson, Henry Francis Brownson (1884)
"... own publications against Mr. Olmstead or any other opponent, or to the community he has had the most prominent share in founding. Father Hecker sent us ..."

6. A Republic, If You Can Keep It: The Foundation of the American Presidency by Michael P. Riccards (1987)
"He was not merely a founding father; he was the patriarch. He was not merely an occasional revolutionary agitator, but the great general who brought victory ..."

7. Science and Society in Early America: Essays in Honor of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. by Randolph Shipley Klein (1986)
"Had he not lived another fifteen years, and become organizer of the French Alliance of 1778, of the Treaty of 1783, and founding father in Philadelphia in ..."

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