Foundation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FOUNDATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of founding
• the lowest load-bearing part of a building, typically below ground level
• a coloured cream, powder, or liquid used as a base to even out facial skin tone before applying other cosmetics
• an underlying basis or principle
• justification or reason
• the action of establishing an institution or organization
• an institution established with an endowment, for example a research body or charity
• The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
• 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.
• 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.
• A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
• That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.
• the basis on which something is grounded
• an institution supported by an endowment
• lowest support of a structure
• education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge
• the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
• a woman\'s undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body
• the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

Words related to FOUNDATION

foundational16 foundationally21 foundationary20 foundationer16 foundationers17 foundationless18 foundations15

Words that contain FOUNDATION

foundations15 foundational16 foundationer16 refoundation16 foundationary20 foundationers17 refoundations17 foundationally21 foundationless18

How to use FOUNDATION in a sentence

• For other foundation can no man lay, than that which is laid, which is Iesus Christ.
• However anxiously we may wish that these complaints had no foundation, the evidence, of known facts will not permit us to deny that they are in some degree true.
• Most of the barbarians, in fact, in their threats make all sorts of terrible boasts that are without foundation.
• No one can walk the city and not believe that this recent and rapid growth has substantial foundation in the enlarging business and increasing importance of the town itself.
• Of course we all realize that the growing of crops is the great foundation on which the well-being not only of the farmer but of the whole Nation must depend.
• A history of Oberlin College, from its foundation through the Civil War.
• Thus was laid the foundation of the great colonial empires, and consequently, of world politics.
• The cause of the North was now placed on a consistent foundation.
• But the supposition wants foundation, and there is no reason to suppose that Lord Bacon was acquainted with the works of the Friar.
• They may also be obtained from the Division of Education of the Russell Sage Foundation, New York City.
• Here and there the foundation of a wall was discernible in the mud.
• Others, without more definite knowledge for foundation, maintain that as he settled in Tennessee he had lived in North Carolina.
• Without any political experience whatever, the people attempted to lay the foundation of a new system of government and society.
• By this prouident counsell, and laying downe this good foundation before hand, all thinges went forward in a due course, to the achieuing of our happie enterprise.
• After 1824 several works written in modern Bulgarian began to appear, but the most important step was the foundation, in 1835, of the first Bulgarian school at Gabrovo.
• The belief that every one knows a good tone when he hears it has no foundation in fact.
• Sympathy has self-consciousness for its foundation.
• Those two little volumes became at once his most priceless possession and the foundation of his first library.
• The Union of Utrecht was the foundation of the Netherlands Republic, which lasted two centuries.
• What an unstable foundation on which to erect a seat of empire! Yet the capital has been located in this vicinity more than once or twice within the last twenty-five centuries.
• It is this message of immortality that makes religion vital to the human world to-day, and essential to the foundation of peace on earth.
• Classical knowledge gives the foundation both of particular and universal grammar.

Similar words containing FOUNDA without suffix tion

foundations15 confoundable20 foundational16 foundationer16 refoundation16 foundationary20 foundationers17 refoundations17 foundationally21 foundationless18

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