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foundation

English

  1. 🔊 lowest support of a structure
    “it was built on a base of solid rock”
  2. 🔊 education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge
    “he lacks the foundation necessary for advanced study”
  3. 🔊 an institution supported by an endowment
  4. 🔊 the basis on which something is grounded
    “there is little foundation for his objections”
  5. 🔊 a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body
  6. 🔊 the act of starting something for the first time
    “she looked forward to her initiation as an adult”
  7. 🔊 the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
    “the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 asiento foundation
  2. 🔊 base foundation
  3. 🔊 cimentación foundation
  4. 🔊 cimiento foundation, groundwork (the result of the work to begin something)

Similar words

initiation founding institution origination creation innovation introduction instauration base fundament foot groundwork substructure understructure foundation garment basis base fundament groundwork cornerstone grounding a a priori principle affirmation