foundations
- 1Plural of foundation.
The architect inspected the foundations of both wings before approving the design.
Several charitable foundations funded the research over the past decade.
Note
A regular plural that carries every countable use of foundation with it. Builders mean the masonry beneath a wall or house. Card players mean the piles built up suit by suit in patience. Philanthropy means endowed charitable institutions, and figurative speech means what lets an enterprise or system develop. The surrounding words usually settle it: the foundations of a house, charitable foundations, the foundations of a theory.
foundations is a form of foundation
foundation, noun: The basis or underlying principle on which something rests and from which it develops. Full entry
- Forms
- foundationfoundations plural
- Spelling
- foundation → foundations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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