: an original member of a group (such as a club or corporation)
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Victor Willis, a founding member of the iconic disco group Village People, is dead at 74.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
1 July 2026 Turner Construction helped navigate those challenges as the fifth founding member of Lakeside Alliance.—
Lauren Victory,
CBS News,
20 June 2026 Dench was a founding member of the Theatre of Comedy, a collective of actors and authors who had part shares in the Shaftesbury Theatre.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
16 June 2026 One detour led me to Paul Krassner, a founding member of the Yippies, a radical (and radically goofy) New Left group.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
20 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for founding member