foundation

foundation is a 10-letter English word with 12 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
2. noun. That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis.
3. noun. The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course (see Base course (a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.
4. noun. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
5. noun. That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
6. noun. the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

   "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"

   "the foundation of a new scientific society"

   Synonyms: creation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination

7. noun. lowest support of a structure

   "it was built on a base of solid rock"

   "he stood at the foot of the tower"

   Synonyms: base, foot, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure

8. noun. a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body
9. noun. the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained

   "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture"

   Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, fundament, groundwork

10. noun. education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge

    "he lacks the foundation necessary for advanced study"

    "a good grounding in mathematics"

    Synonyms: grounding

11. noun. an institution supported by an endowment
12. noun. the basis on which something is grounded

    "there is little foundation for his objections"

Synonyms

creation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination, base, foot, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure, basis, cornerstone, grounding

Common word forms

foundations, foundational, foundationed, foundationer, foundationless

Words from these letters

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