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Word forms: plural founding fathers
1. countable noun
The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
[literary]
2. plural proper noun
The Founding Fathers of the United States were the members of the American Constitutional Convention of 1787.

founding father in British English

noun
(often capitals)
a person who founds or establishes an important institution, esp a member of the US Constitutional Convention (1787)

founding father in American English

US
1. 
someone who founds or is instrumental in founding an institution, nation, etc.
2.  [usually F- F-]
a participant in the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, esp. one who signed the document

Examples of 'founding father' in a sentence
founding father

With a founding father and a founding mother of the movement in the town they were enjoying a wave of popular interest.
Barnard, Robert POLITICAL SUICIDE (2001)

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founding father

British English: founding father NOUN
The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
  • American English: founding father
  • Brazilian Portuguese: pai
  • Chinese: 创始人
  • European Spanish: fundador
  • French: père fondateur
  • German: Gründungsvater
  • Italian: padre fondatore
  • Japanese: 建国の父
  • Korean: 창시자
  • European Portuguese: pai
  • Latin American Spanish: fundador

Chinese translation of 'founding father'

founding father

  1. (Hist, in US) 开(開)国(國)者 (kāiguózhě)
  2. (fig) [of institution, organization] 创(創)始人 (chuàngshǐrén)
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