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Founding Father

Definitions: Founding Father

Founding Father

Noun

1. A member of the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787.

2. A person who founds or establishes some institution; "George Washington is the father of his country".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Founding Father

Synonyms: beginner (n), father (n), founder (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Founding Father

Specialty definitions using "Founding Father": Stephen Kleene. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Founding Father

DomainTitle

Books

  • Big John Forrest 1847-1918: A Founding Father of the Commonwealth of Australia (reference)

  • Franklin: The Essential Founding Father (reference)

  • James Madison: The Founding Father (reference)

  • John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father (reference)

  • Oliver Franks: Founding Father (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Founding Father

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

founding father

135

founding father quote

13

founding father picture

7

education and the founding father

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Founding Father

Language Translations for "Founding Father"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

основатель (constitutor, erector, founder, founding fathers). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

grundare (founder, founders). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Founding Father

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-f-g-h-i-n-n-o-r-t-u"

-3 letters: unthreading.

-4 letters: affrighted, affronting, denaturing, dethroning, foredating, forfending, foundering, fountained, outearning, outgrinned, outhearing, outreading, refounding, thundering, unearthing, untreading.

-5 letters: affording, affronted, authoring, dehorning, dehorting, detouring, doughtier, fathering, featuring, fortuning, fraughted, godfather, hardening, ingrafted, integrand, inthroned, inundator, naughtier, nontariff, offending, outdaring, outgained, outranged, refunding, threadfin, threading, unhandier, unthroned, untrained.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Founding Father


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 6F 75 6E 64 69 6E 67      46 61 74 68 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000110 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#70 &#97 &#116 &#104 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 006F 0075 006E 0064 0069 006E 0067      0046 0061 0074 0068 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40818780707580732406786747184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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