{
    "term": "found",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "found",
            "heSheIt": "founds"
        },
        "pastSimple": "founded",
        "pastParticiple": "founded",
        "ingForm": "founding"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to start something, such as an organization or an institution, especially by providing money",
            "sensetop": "found something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to found a club/company/school"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her family founded the college in 1895."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **founding members** of the European Union"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was a founding editor of the journal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He founded a new religion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She founded the company 20 years ago."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "establish",
            "topics": ["History"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to be the first to start building and living in a town or country",
            "sensetop": "found something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The town was founded by English settlers in 1790."
                },
                {
                    "text": "French settlers founded New Orleans."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the founding generation of immigrants"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["History"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to base something on something",
            "sensetop": "be founded on something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Their marriage was founded on love and mutual respect.",
                    "contextForm": "be founded on something"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to melt metal and pour it into a mould; to make objects using this process",
            "sensetop": "found something",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/faʊnd/",
                "audio": "fo/found/found__gb_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/faʊndz/",
                "audio": "fo/found/founds__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfaʊndɪd/",
                "audio": "fo/found/founded__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfaʊndɪŋ/",
                "audio": "fo/found/founding__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/faʊnd/",
                "audio": "fo/found/found__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/faʊndz/",
                "audio": "fo/found/founds__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfaʊndɪd/",
                "audio": "fo/found/founded__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfaʊndɪŋ/",
                "audio": "fo/found/founding__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "senses 1 to 3 Middle English: from Old French fonder, from Latin fundare, from fundus ‘bottom, base’. sense 4 early 16th cent.: from French fondre, from Latin fundere ‘melt, pour’."
}