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

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.

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