FOUNDATION

Definition of FOUNDATION

  1. (noun)the basis on which something is grounded
  2. (noun)an institution supported by an endowment
  3. (noun)lowest support of a structure
  4. (noun)education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge
  5. (noun)the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
  6. (noun)a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body
  7. (noun)the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new