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Foundation   /faʊndˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Foundation

noun
1.
The basis on which something is grounded.
2.
An institution supported by an endowment.
3.
Lowest support of a structure.  Synonyms: base, foot, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure.  "He stood at the foot of the tower"
4.
Education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge.  Synonym: grounding.  "A good grounding in mathematics"
5.
The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained.  Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, fundament, groundwork.
6.
A woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body.  Synonym: foundation garment.
7.
The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new.  Synonyms: creation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination.  "The foundation of a new scientific society"



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"Foundation" Quotes from Famous Books



... be, not a terror and a scourge to the yeomen and peasants round, but a protection and a guard against the Philistines and Amalekites, and, in due time, his trusty bodyguard of warriors—men who have grown grey beside him through a hundred battles, who are to be the foundation of his national army, and help him to make the Jews one strong ...
— True Words for Brave Men • Charles Kingsley
... made no answer, To their challenge made no answer, Only rose, and slowly turning, Seized the huge rock in his fingers, Tore it from its deep foundation, Poised it in the air a moment, Pitched it sheer into the river, Sheer into the swift Pauwating, Where it still is seen ...
— The Song Of Hiawatha • Henry W. Longfellow
... more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone; in whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord; in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of ...
— The Book of Common Prayer - and The Scottish Liturgy • Church of England
... substructure lay a second foundation, far enough inside the first to leave ample room for cohorts in line of battle to take position on the broad top of the rampart for its defence. Having laid these two foundations at this distance from one another, ...
— Ten Books on Architecture • Vitruvius
... 'His governorship enabled him partly to rid himself of his debts partly to lay the foundation for ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce


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