Definition of foundation

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Foundation (n.) A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment..

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Air-built :: Air-built (a.) Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle..
Base :: Base (n.) To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon..
Planting :: Planting (n.) The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation.
Tabarder :: Tabarder (n.) A scholar on the foundation of Queen's College, Oxford, England, whose original dress was a tabard..
Undermine :: Undermine (v. t.) Fig.: To remove the foundation or support of by clandestine means; to ruin in an underhand way; as, to undermine reputation; to undermine the constitution of the state..
Underpinning :: Underpinning (n.) The foundation, esp. of a frame house..
Base :: Base (n.) The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue..
Foundation :: Foundation (n.) The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect..
Superstructure :: Superstructure (n.) Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basi.
Sill :: Sill (n.) The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like..
Consist :: Consist (v. i.) To have as its substance or character, or as its foundation; to be; -- followed by in..
Concrete :: Concrete (n.) A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures..
Fundament :: Fundament (n.) Foundation.
Chapel :: Chapel (n.) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial.
Groundless :: Groundless (a.) Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion..
Sap :: Sap (v. t.) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
Bottom :: Bottom (n.) That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork..
Fellow :: Fellow (n.) In the English universities, a scholar who is appointed to a foundation called a fellowship, which gives a title to certain perquisites and privileges..
Stable :: Stable (v. i.) Durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position..
Groundwork :: Groundwork (n.) That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle.
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