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founding
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | establishing |
| Synonyms: | authorizing, colonizing, endowing, instituting, originating, planting, setting up |
| Main Entry: | found |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put on a base |
| Synonyms: | bottom, build, erect, establish, ground, predicate, raise, rear, rest, root, stay, support, sustain |
| Main Entry: | colonization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | settlement of area |
| Synonyms: | clearing, establishment, expanding, expansion, founding, immigration, migration, opening up, peopling, pioneering, populating, settlement, settling, squatting, transplanting |
| Main Entry: | establishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organization; creation |
| Synonyms: | enactment, endowment, formation, formulation, foundation, founding, inauguration, installation, institution, setting up |
| Main Entry: | establishing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the act of founding |
| Synonyms: | beginning, building, chartering, constituting, endowing, fixing, founding, implementing, inaugurating, initiating, instituting, organizing, originating, regulating, setting up, settling, stabilizing, starting, subsidizing |
| Antonyms: | dissolving, ending, tearing down |
| Main Entry: | base |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | build plan or opinion on |
| Synonyms: | construct, depend, derive, establish, found, ground, hinge, locate, plant, predicate, prop, rest, set up, station, stay |
| Main Entry: | bed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plant |
| Synonyms: | base, embed, establish, fix, found, implant, insert, set up, settle |
| Main Entry: | begin |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | start |
| Synonyms: | activate, actualize, break ground, break the ice, bring about, bring to pass, cause, commence, create, do, drive, effect, embark on, enter on, enter upon, establish, eventuate, found, generate, get going, give birth to, give impulse, go ahead, go into, impel, inaugurate, induce, initiate, instigate, institute, introduce, launch, lay foundation for, lead, make, make active, motivate, mount, occasion, open, originate, plunge into, prepare, produce, set about, set in motion, set up, trigger, undertake |
| Antonyms: | complete, conclude, consummate, end, finish |
| Main Entry: | constitute |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | comprise, form |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, complement, complete, compose, compound, construct, cook up, create, develop, dream up, embody, enact, establish, fill out, fix, flesh out, found, frame, fudge together, incorporate, integrate, make, make up, set up |
| Notes: | compose is preferred when the parts of the whole being assembled are regarded as nonconcrete and more general; when the parts are concrete and specific, then constitute is more appropriate, and then there is comprise, which can mean 'comprehending or encompassing certain parts' comprise means literally 'embrace': a zoo comprises mammals, reptiles, and birds (because it 'embraces' or includes them), but animals do not comprise ('embrace') a zoo, they constitute a zoo |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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