FOUNDING definition: 1. referring to the time when an organization, state, etc. first came into existence, or the people…. Learn more.

To establish or set up, especially with provision for continuing existence: The college was founded in 1872.

Founding means relating to the starting of a particular institution or organization. The committee held its founding congress in the capital.

Founding is the act of starting something new. If you're a founding member of your school's science club, you were one of the people who got the club off the ground.

Synonyms for FOUNDING: initiation, creation, institution, inauguration, origination, inception, beginning, start; Antonyms of FOUNDING: end, conclusion, close, ending, completion, period, closing, termination

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to set up or establish on a firm basis or for enduring existence: to found a new publishing company. to lay the lowest part of (a structure) on a firm base or ground: a house founded on solid rock. to base …

For the sake of this resource, the Founding is defined as being the period from 1776 through 1789 – that is, from the writing of the Declaration of Independence through George Washington’s inauguration as …

The action of the verb to found; the establishment of something. The founding of the republic.