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Meanings of founding father in English

Portuguese
fundador
Catalan
pare
Spanish
padre

A person who founds or establishes some institution.

        fundador
        Usage of founding father in English
        1
        James Connolly, a founding father of the Labour Party, would be alarmed.
        The Irish Times
        2
        He said, President Momis is a founding father of our nation.
        Radio NZ
        3
        Lot's uncle Abraham was the founding father of all three 'great' monotheistic religions.
        The god delusion
        4
        It's enough to make the founding father turn in his grave.
        The Irish Times
        5
        He was more than a legend, he was a founding father.
        The Guardian
        6
        Anson Ludlow, the great-grandson of this town's founding father, for one.
        Pet Sematary
        7
        He is a son of the founding father of Kenya, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.
        BBC
        8
        Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, is stepping down from politics after fifty years.
        Radio NZ
        9
        He had a long run as the lead playing US founding father Alexander Hamilton.
        The Guardian
        10
        The epic miniseries about the founding father won a record 13 Emmys in September.
        Reuters
        11
        He is the acknowledged founding father of marketing in Ireland.
        The Irish Times
        12
        He is the founding father of the nation of Zimbabwe.
        The South African
        13
        And more than any other individual, Shockley was the founding father of Silicon Valley.
        Wired
        14
        Darby Kennedy, who has died aged 101, was a founding father of civil aviation.
        The Irish Times
        15
        Its subject is the US founding father who was the first secretary of the Treasury.
        The Guardian
        16
        The founding father of the People's Republic of China had a predilection for propaganda movies.
        BBC
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        Translations for founding father
        Portuguese
        fundador
        Founding father through the time