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• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Standard Canadian) IPA^(key): /ˈfaʊ̯ndɪŋ/

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  • (Upper Midwestern US, Western US, Canada, pre-/ŋ/-tensing) IPA^(key): /ˈfaʊ̯ndiŋ/
• (Southern US, Midland US, Mid-Atlantic US, New York City, Australian, New Zealand, /aʊ̯/-fronting) IPA^(key): /ˈfæʊ̯ndɪŋ/
• (Pittsburgh, General South African, /aʊ̯/-monophthongization) IPA^(key): /ˈfaːndɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
• Hyphenation: foun‧ding

founding

1. present participle and gerund of found
   • 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:

     So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.

founding (plural foundings)

1. The establishment of something.

   the founding of the republic

   • 2005, Donatella Della Porta, Sidney G. Tarrow, Transnational Protest and Global Activism:

     Do foundings of transnational organizations appear to spur foundings of national organizations, or vice versa?

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founding (not comparable)

1. Who or that founds (establishes or starts) or founded.

   The founding fathers of our country.

• founding father
• founding member
• founding mother

• fonduing