Synonyms of founding

founding 1 of 2

noun

as in initiation

Related Words

• initiation
• creation
• institution
• inauguration
• origination
• inception
• beginning
• start
• drawing board
• genesis
• commencement
• origin
• fountain
• spring
• first base
• germ
• outset
• cradle
• launch
• source
• birth
• onset
• arrival
• dawn
• well
• emergence
• alpha
• ground zero
• baseline
• opening
• fountainhead
• debut
• nascence
• morning
• square one
• day one
• childhood
• nascency
• threshold
• root
• kickoff
• advent
• incipiency
• infancy
• incipience
• seedbed
• wellspring
• dawning
• get-go
• appearance
• youth

Dissimilar Words

• end
• conclusion
• close
• ending
• completion
• period
• closing
• termination
• stop
• cessation
• closure
• omega
• finish
• finale
• windup

founding

2 of 2

verb

present participle of found

as in establishing

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

• establishing
• pioneering
• initiating
• launching
• introducing
• creating
• beginning
• instituting
• inaugurating
• starting
• originating
• planting
• organizing
• constructing
• constituting
• innovating
• developing
• inventing
• authoring
• manufacturing
• setting up
• producing
• devising
• thinking (up)
• conceiving
• expanding
• funding
• cooking (up)
• fathering
• financing
• enlarging
• endowing
• making up
• refounding
• arranging
• subsidizing
• contriving
• concocting
• fabricating
• systematizing
• relaunching
• reinstituting
• putting up
• reinitiating
• systemizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• closing (down)
• shutting (up)
• abolishing
• phasing out
• ending
• finishing
• stopping
• terminating
• halting
• annulling
• nullifying
• annihilating
• winding up
• rounding (off or out)
• wrapping up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of founding

Noun

The round brings Wonder’s total raised to approximately $3 billion since its founding in 2018. — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 17 July 2026

When Intocable lead singer and founding member Ricky Muñoz was growing up in Zapata, Texas, his grandfather sold a cow to buy him an accordion. — Ernesto Lechner, Variety, 16 July 2026

In 1999, a petition to spend $25 million for the founding of a training facility for teachers who would instruct at-risk children was denied. — Thomas Adam, The Conversation, 16 July 2026

Thanks to our new Southern Living Insiders program, members now have access to Pam’s recipes plus hundreds more from our archives dating all the way back to the year of our founding 1966. — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 15 July 2026

Since its founding in the 1970s, the group has been passed around like a hot potato and saw many of its properties revamp into Intercontinentals, Hyatts, and Four Seasonses over time. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026

The exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox date back to the 1948 founding of Israel, when a small number of students sought to revive the Jewish scholarship system after it was decimated during the Holocaust. — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026

The founding of the Jonestown settlement in Guyana, in the mid-seventies, served two purposes. — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 14 July 2026

In addition to the physical manifestation — the rusting fort jutting out of the water — Sealand will stay alive online, due in large part to the very idea of its founding. — Brit McCandless Farmer, CBS News, 12 July 2026

Verb

Bruce Rogow, a constitutional-law attorney and founding professor of the Nova Southeastern University of Law Center, said looking into someone’s information that is already public record might have been acceptable for FWC to have done. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 18 July 2026

So founding a college bestows some measure of immortality, enduring long beyond the life of the founder. — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Since its founding 28 years ago, there has been an 89% drop in euthanasia for homeless cats and dogs in the city, according to PAWS Chicago. — Mick Zawislak, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026

Darrick Hamilton is a university professor, Henry Cohen Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, and founding director of the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School. — Darrick Hamilton, Fortune, 16 July 2026

Over three decades, the duo went from play castmates to college roommates to ultimately founding Charlotte Is Creative in 2018. — Claire Harutunian, Charlotte Observer, 15 July 2026

For nearly three decades, Jennifer Piskun Johnson built her career with the intention of the above-founding principles of success. — Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 15 July 2026

Close to 6 in 10 Americans, or 59%, indicated that the founding ideals of the declaration still guide the country. — Adam Eichen, The Conversation, 14 July 2026

Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine and an educator on critical thinking. — Leonard David, Space.com, 11 July 2026

Phrases Containing founding

• founding father