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Verb: found  fawnd
  1. Start an new organization or institution
    - establish, set up, launch
  2. Set up or lay the groundwork for
    "found a new department";
    - establish, plant, constitute, institute
  3. Use as a basis for; found on
    "found a claim on some observation";
    - establish, base, ground
Noun: found  fawnd
  1. Food and lodging provided in addition to money
    "they worked for $30 and found"
Adjective: found  fawnd
  1. Come upon unexpectedly or after searching
Verb: find (found)  fInd
  1. Come upon, as if by accident; meet with
    "We find this idea in Plato";
    - happen, chance, bump, encounter
  2. Determine the existence, presence, or fact of
    "We found traces of lead in the paint";
    - detect, observe, discover, notice
  3. Come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
    - regain
  4. Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
    "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"; "find the product of two numbers";
    - determine, find out, ascertain
  5. Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuition, or indefinite grounds
    - feel
  6. Perceive or be contemporaneous with
    "We found Republicans winning the offices";
    - witness, see
  7. Get something or somebody for a specific purpose
    - line up, get hold, come up
  8. Make a discovery, make a new finding
    "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle";
    - discover
  9. Determine following investigation
    "She found that he had lied to her";
    - discover
  10. Obtain through effort or management
  11. Decide on and make a declaration about
    "find someone guilty";
    - rule
  12. Be subject to a specified treatment or analysis
    - receive, get, obtain, incur
  13. Perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
    "I found myself in a difficult situation"; "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room"
  14. Get or get back; recover the use of
    "She found her voice and replied quickly";
    - recover, retrieve, regain
  15. Succeed in reaching; arrive at
    "The arrow found its mark"
  16. Accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
    "My son went to Berkeley to find himself";
    - find oneself

Derived forms: founding, founded, founds

See also: find out, recovered, saved

Type of: acquire, arrive at, attain, change, comprehend, conceive, conceptualise [Brit], conceptualize, conclude, descry, discover, earnings, espy, experience, find out, gain, gestate, get, get a line, get wind, get word, go through, grow, hear, hit, initiate, judge, label, learn, make, maturate, mature, open, open up, pay, perceive, pick up, pioneer, pronounce, reach, reason, reason out, remuneration, salary, see, sight, spot, spy, wage

Antonym: lose, lost

Encyclopedia: Found