Usually means: Originator or creator of an organization.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word founder:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. founder: Merriam-Webster
  2. founder, founder, founder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. founder, founder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. founder: Collins English Dictionary
  5. founder: Vocabulary.com
  6. Founder, founder: Wordnik
  7. founder: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. founder: Wiktionary
  9. founder: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. founder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. founder: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. founder: Dictionary.com
  13. founder (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. founder: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Founder (company), Founder, The Founder (film), The Founder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Founder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. founder: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. founder: Rhymezone
  19. founder: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. founder: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. founder: FreeDictionary.org
  22. founder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. founder: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. founder: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. founder: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. founder: Legal dictionary
  4. founder: Financial dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. founder: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. founder: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. founder: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. founder: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. founder: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. Founder: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See foundered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
noun:  (genetics) A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation).
noun:  The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
noun:  One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
noun:  (veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
verb:  (intransitive, of a ship) To flood with water and sink.
verb:  (intransitive, especially of horses) To fall; to stumble and go lame.
verb:  (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
verb:  (transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to flood and sink, as a ship.
verb:  (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.

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