What does "found" mean?
Food and lodging; board.
Found
/faʊnd/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Food and lodging; board.
- Grammar: found is listed as noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: establish, launch, assemble, author.
- Useful contrasts: lost, missing document, missing phone entry.
- Usage evidence: I found a solution, but I found it so fast that it can't be the right solution.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Food and lodging; board. uncountable
"I'll only give you the usual payment—say five hundred dollars a year, and found." / "And—what?" / "Found—that is, board, you know, and clothing, of course, also."
- 2 The period of time when a furnace is at its hottest; the interval in which the furnace is meant to fully melt glass. no-plural, transitive
- 3 A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers. transitive
- 4 food and lodging provided in addition to money wordnet
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of find form-of, participle, past
- 2 To start (an institution or organization). transitive
"“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. …”"
- 3 To melt, especially of metal or glass in an industrial setting. transitive
- 4 use as a basis for; found on wordnet
- 5 To begin building. transitive
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- 6 To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast. transitive
"Whereof to found their engines."
- 7 set up or lay the groundwork for wordnet
- 8 To use as a foundation; to base. transitive
"Being left alone with him after they had dined, he obſerved, that however ſtrongly he was convinced of Zeluco’s being the writer of the letter, yet as he had had the precaution to diſguiſe his hand-writing, it would be fruitleſs to found any legal proſecution upon that circumſtance."
- 9 set up or found wordnet
Adjective
- 1 come upon unexpectedly or after searching wordnet
Antonyms
Example
"I found a solution, but I found it so fast that it can't be the right solution."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "found"?
Common synonyms include: establish, launch, assemble, author, base, base.
How do you use "found" in a sentence?
I found a solution, but I found it so fast that it can't be the right solution.
How do you pronounce "found"?
Pronounced /faʊnd/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
See find.
Etymology 2
From Middle English founden, from Old French founder (Modern French: fonder), from Latin fundāre. Compare fund.
Etymology 3
From Middle English founden, from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere. Cognate with Spanish fundir and hundir, and French fondre.