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/ˈfaʊ̯n.dəː/ · noun
One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.)..
The founder of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg.
As to eleemoſynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal viſitors, to ſee that that property is rightly employed, which would otherwiſe have deſcended to the viſitor himſelf: […]
Young people love to idolize their predecessors. [Steve] Jobs was Silicon Valley's idol of choice for decades, but to the next generation of startup founders, his legacy feels about as old as Web 1.0.
Chris Printup, a founder of the streetwear brand Born X Raised, which became a fixture on the Los Angeles fashion scene, died on Wednesday morning at a hospital in Albuquerque. He was 42.
a founder population
the founder effect
The sickle cell mutation today can be found in five different haplotypes, leading to the conclusion that the mutation appeared independently five times in five different founders.
Among the Ashkenazi Jews in the positive group, 81 percent had one of the three founder mutations, suggesting that 23andMe's test could be helpful for them.
Use founder when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Founder means One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.)..
Common synonyms include break, give, collapse, flop.
Possible antonyms include ruiner.
The founder of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg.
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