Foundation

Quick meaning: Foundation is a noun meaning The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

Meaning

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) The result of the work to begin something; that which stabilizes and allows an enterprise or system to develop.
2. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
3. That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
4. (cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.
5. 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; underbuilding.
6. (card games) In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.
7. (architecture) 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.

Example Sentences

The foundations of this construction have been laid out.

The foundation of his institute has been wrought with difficulty.

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is the parent organization of the Wiktionary collaborative project.

The implication is that the Gandhian model of growth is possible, now that Nehru's investment strategy had already laid a strong foundation for economic growth.

Word Forms

• foundations

Synonyms for foundation

Depending on context, synonyms include establishment, basis, groundwork, underbuilding, underframework, platform.

Antonyms for foundation

Common opposites include abolition, dissolution, ruination.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include basis, groundwork, base, origination, creation, founding.

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