Definition of "founding" []

• Present participle of found. (verb)
• The action of the verb to found. (noun)
• Who or that founds or found. (adjective)

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• "As soon as he went down to Washington, ironically, the very first school I'm aware of that the Secretary or the President were involved in founding is a school called Ariel Academy in Chicago."
• "This is a work for which 'ground-breaking' really is the mot juste, yet although it has earned Reich the title 'founding father of minimalism', he himself regards it as leaving minimalism far behind."
• "Is it acceptable to use the term founding fathers?"