Synonyms of found

found

verb

as in to establish

to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of

John Harvard did not actually found the university that now bears his name

Synonyms & Similar Words

• establish
• pioneer
• introduce
• create
• initiate
• launch
• begin
• institute
• constitute
• start
• inaugurate
• plant
• construct
• originate
• set up
• organize
• develop
• author
• produce
• invent
• innovate
• devise
• conceive
• make up
• manufacture
• think (up)
• concoct
• contrive
• father
• expand
• fund
• fabricate
• arrange
• endow
• enlarge
• finance
• refound
• cook (up)
• put up
• subsidize
• systematize
• reinstitute
• systemize
• reinitiate
• relaunch

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• shut (up)
• close (down)
• stop
• end
• abolish
• nullify
• finish
• phase out
• terminate
• annul
• halt
• annihilate
• wind up
• round (off or out)
• wrap up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of found

The company, founded in 2020, cut staff earlier this year, attributing the reductions to its increasing allocation of resources toward prediction markets. — Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 30 July 2026

Robin and Michelle Baggett founded Alpha Omega Winery in the mid 1990s and have been very active in the Napa Valley Vintners association and its charitable organizations since then. — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 30 July 2026

The team was founded in 2005 and, like Junior, are owned by the Char family, led by businessman Fuad Char. — Sam Joseph, New York Times, 30 July 2026

The Argenta Contemporary Theatre was founded in 2010 in North Little Rock as the Argenta Community Theater. — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 30 July 2026