Founding Synonyms and Antonyms

The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. originating
  2. setting-up
  3. initiation
  4. foundation
  5. institution
  6. starting
  7. origination
  8. creation
  9. innovation
  10. introduction
  11. instauration
Set up or lay the groundwork for
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. instituting
  2. originating
  3. starting
  4. planting
  5. organizing
  6. establishing
  7. basing
  8. resting
  9. creating
  10. launching
  11. isolating
  12. initiating
  13. gathering
  14. forming
  15. constituting
  16. erecting
  17. endowing
  18. departing
  19. casting
  20. building
  21. boarding
  22. beginning
Antonyms:
  1. ending
  2. destroying
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. endowing
  2. setting-up
  3. colonizing
  4. authorizing

Founding Sentence Examples

  • Up to the present he was far from having any idea of founding a society.

  • Derkinderen, describing the founding of the city.

  • In both fields he displayed much talent, and by writing his Synopsis of the Indian Tribes within the United States East of the Rocky Mountains and in the British and Russian Possessions in North America (1836), and by founding the American Ethnological Society of New York in 1842, he earned the title of "Father of American Ethnology."

  • He took part in founding the university of Halle (1694), where he became second and then first professor of law and rector of the university.

  • The industries include shipbuilding, rope and sail making and iron founding.

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