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Foundation

noun

The basis on which something is grounded.

An institution supported by an endowment.

Lowest support of a structure. Synonyms: base, foot, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure. "He stood at the foot of the tower"

Education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge. Synonym: grounding. "A good grounding in mathematics"

The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained. Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, fundament, groundwork.

A woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body. Synonym: foundation garment.

The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new. Synonyms: creation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination. "The foundation of a new scientific society"

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"Foundation" Quotes from Famous Books

... open pitch attainable on the Exposition's instrument. Speaking by itself, this note has no sound. It is only a tremendous quaking of the whole building, as though the earth were shuddering. By itself it has no place in organ music. It is not intended to be struck alone. It is used only as a foundation upon which to build other tones. In combination it adds majesty to the music, rumbling in a gigantic undertone to ...

— The Jewel City • Ben Macomber

... been Don Juan altogether, there had been some possible road for him throughout this troublesome world; but a man, alas! who is equally at the call of his worse and better instincts, stands among changing events without foundation ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... two grass-grown and shallow hollows, on the highest part of the ridge. The house consisted of two wings, each perhaps sixty feet in length, united by a middle part, in which was the entrance-hall, and which looked lengthwise along the hill. The foundation of a spacious porch may be traced on either side of the central portion; some of the stones still remain; but even where they are gone, the line of the porch is still traceable by the greener verdure. In the cellar, or rather in the two cellars, grow ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 • Various

... to the Florida Seminole in their relations with one another, I shall first treat of that relationship which lies at the foundation of society, marriage or its equivalent, the result of which is a body of people more or less remotely connected with one another and designated by the term "kindred." This is shown either in the narrow limits of what may be named the family ...

— The Seminole Indians of Florida • Clay MacCauley

... conscience will not allow me in cold blood to give utterance to suspicions which may not only damage the reputation of an honest man, but place me in the unpleasant position of an accuser without substantial foundation ...

— The Leavenworth Case • Anna Katharine Green

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