1048 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ fa͡ʊndˈe͡ɪʃən], [ fa‍ʊndˈe‍ɪʃən], [ f_aʊ_n_d_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]

Similar words for foundation:

• other relevant words (adjective)
• academy (noun)
• backbone (noun)
• base (noun)
• basics (noun)
• basis for something physical or mental (noun)
• bottom (noun)
• cause (noun)
• construction (noun)
• core (noun)
• cornerstone (noun)
• cosmetics (noun)
• creation (noun)
• criterion (noun)
• dawn (noun)
• derivation (noun)
• established institution (noun)
• establishment (noun)
• fabric (noun)
• foot (noun)
• foundation (noun)
• foundation garment (noun)
• fundamental (noun)
• fundamentals (noun)
• grounds (noun)
• group (noun)
• hypothesis (noun)
• institute/institution (noun)
• keystone (noun)
• law (noun)
• makeup (noun)
• museum (noun)
• nucleus (noun)
• occasion (noun)
• origin (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• pedestal (noun)
• preliminary (noun)
• preparation (noun)
• principle (noun)
• provision (noun)
• root (noun)
• rudiment (noun)
• rudiments (noun)
• ruins (noun)
• settlement (noun)
• start (noun)
• support (noun)
• theory (noun)
• training (noun)
• underpinning (noun)
• validity (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• basis
• make up
• other relevant words (noun)

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Synonyms for Foundation:

• adj.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • place.

• n.

  •
  • key,
  • burning issue/question,
  • element,
  • essence,
  • justification,
  • reason,
  • staple,
  • priority,
  • concern,
  • feature.
  •
  • rest,
  • column,
  • stay,
  • wall,
  • beam,
  • shaft,
  • pillar,
  • care,
  • prop,
  • pier,
  • skid,
  • post,
  • shore,
  • skeleton,
  • bolster,
  • chassis,
  • roadbed.
  •
  • incorporate,
  • go into,
  • set up,
  • found,
  • move into,
  • association,
  • society,
  • corporation,
  • constitute,
  • trusteeship,
  • endowment,
  • guild,
  • institute,
  • establish,
  • open,
  • company.
  •
  • Establishing,
  • frame.
  •
  • start.
  •
  • over.
  •
  • true.
  • academy (noun)
  • league,
  • fraternity.
  • backbone (noun)
  • vertebraes.
  • base (noun)
  • infra-structures,
  • infra structures,
  • chief constituents,
  • primary elements,
  • important parts,
  • infra structure.
  • basics (noun)
  • first steps,
  • abc.
  • basis for something physical or mental (noun)
  • bottom,
  • nuts and bolts,
  • bottom line,
  • basics,
  • footing,
  • understructure,
  • nub,
  • groundwork,
  • substructure,
  • heart,
  • guts,
  • authority,
  • bedrock,
  • brass tacks,
  • abcs.
  • bottom (noun)
  • underneath,
  • underside,
  • basement,
  • sole,
  • depths.
  • cause (noun)
  • determinant,
  • prime mover,
  • mainsprings,
  • motivations,
  • mainspring,
  • maker,
  • causation,
  • determinants,
  • Causations.
  • construction (noun)
  • pre fab,
  • out line,
  • putting ups,
  • pre fabrication,
  • pre-fabrication,
  • out-line,
  • dis position,
  • out lines,
  • dis-position,
  • pre-fabrications,
  • dis positions,
  • dis-positions,
  • out-lines,
  • rearings,
  • fabricatings,
  • prefabrications,
  • pre fabrications,
  • erectings.
  • core (noun)
  • sub-stance,
  • sub stance,
  • up-shots,
  • up shots,
  • mid point,
  • up shot,
  • up-shot,
  • main ideas,
  • meat potatoes,
  • mid points,
  • sub-stances,
  • sub stances.
  • cornerstone (noun)
  • linchpins,
  • main ingredient,
  • key element,
  • linchpin.
  • cosmetics (noun)
  • makeup.
  • creation (noun)
  • formulations,
  • Siring,
  • formulation,
  • nativities,
  • laying down,
  • nativity.
  • criterion (noun)
  • ex ample,
  • ex-ample,
  • point comparison.
  • dawn (noun)
  • outstarts,
  • un folding,
  • out start,
  • out starts,
  • out-sets,
  • out-start,
  • un-folding,
  • out-starts,
  • out set,
  • out sets,
  • out-set.
  • derivation (noun)
  • well springs,
  • whence it cames,
  • de scents,
  • de-scent,
  • well spring,
  • whence came,
  • whence cames,
  • well-springs,
  • de scent,
  • de-scents.
  • established institution (noun)
  • inauguration,
  • plantation,
  • set-up.
  • establishment (noun)
  • out fits,
  • out-fit,
  • foundings,
  • out fit,
  • out-fits.
  • fabric (noun)
  • fabrics,
  • make-ups,
  • make-up,
  • texture.
  • foot (noun)
  • lowest points.
  • foundation (noun)
  • innovation,
  • initiation,
  • fundament,
  • instauration,
  • origination,
  • grounding.
  • foundation garment (noun)
  • Bandeaux,
  • bandeau,
  • brassieres,
  • brassiere,
  • bra,
  • BRAS,
  • shapewear.
  • fundamental (noun)
  • coal ice,
  • coal ices,
  • coal and ice,
  • coal and ices,
  • nittygritty.
  • fundamentals (noun)
  • rudiments.
  • grounds (noun)
  • pre-texts,
  • straight stuffs,
  • in-formation,
  • in-formations,
  • pre text,
  • pre texts,
  • infos,
  • pre-text,
  • chapter verse,
  • in formations,
  • whyfors.
  • group (noun)
  • foundation.
  • hypothesis (noun)
  • pro position,
  • pre-supposition,
  • pre-mise,
  • hypo-thesis,
  • shot the dark,
  • pre suppositions,
  • be lief,
  • sur mise,
  • apriorities,
  • pro positions,
  • pre mises,
  • pro-positions,
  • pre-suppositions,
  • sur-mise,
  • shot in dark,
  • be-lief,
  • pre mise,
  • pre supposition,
  • Lemmata,
  • hypo thesis,
  • shot dark,
  • sur mises,
  • tentative laws,
  • starting points,
  • pre-mises,
  • sur-mises.
  • institute/institution (noun)
  • semi-nary,
  • semi nary.
  • keystone (noun)
  • head stone,
  • keystones.
  • law (noun)
  • pre-cept,
  • pre cept.
  • makeup (noun)
  • maquillages.
  • museum (noun)
  • exhibits archives.
  • nucleus (noun)
  • beginning buds.
  • occasion (noun)
  • pro vocation,
  • pro vocations,
  • pro-vocations.
  • origin (noun)
  • embarkations,
  • git goes,
  • out-break,
  • blast offs,
  • out breaks,
  • out break,
  • day ones,
  • out-breaks.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • Underpinning,
  • prearrangement,
  • premise,
  • seminary,
  • formula,
  • radicle,
  • day one,
  • inhabitancy,
  • Foci,
  • exhibits archive,
  • first step,
  • opener,
  • Seminaries,
  • generalizations,
  • erections,
  • beginning bud,
  • hospital,
  • official document,
  • workplace,
  • fundamentals,
  • sticker,
  • evidence,
  • generalization,
  • think tank,
  • prearrangements,
  • lemma,
  • start-off,
  • staples,
  • core,
  • nadir,
  • prelims,
  • official documents,
  • lipsticks,
  • preparation,
  • whyfor,
  • theory,
  • greasepaint,
  • essentiality,
  • lipstick,
  • early stage,
  • provision,
  • ruins,
  • codification,
  • Workplaces,
  • main idea,
  • quicks,
  • ducats,
  • stickers,
  • wherefores,
  • flying start,
  • git go,
  • orphanage,
  • figuration,
  • fitting out,
  • nucleus,
  • menageries,
  • codifications,
  • hypothesis,
  • treasury,
  • info,
  • running start,
  • academy,
  • validity,
  • nitty gritty,
  • shingles,
  • straight stuff,
  • pedestal,
  • grounds,
  • dawn,
  • law,
  • golden rule,
  • sharpenings,
  • infra-structure,
  • exemplar,
  • paradigm,
  • rhizome,
  • prefabs,
  • maquillage,
  • base,
  • first round,
  • roadwork,
  • Accreditations,
  • mid-point,
  • supposal,
  • principle,
  • genuineness,
  • spin off,
  • derivation,
  • Well-spring,
  • raisings,
  • roadworks,
  • principium,
  • roots,
  • criterion,
  • prefab,
  • start off,
  • point of comparison,
  • Radices,
  • keystone,
  • setting out,
  • spin-off,
  • lowest point,
  • principality,
  • warm-up,
  • embarkation,
  • jump-off,
  • primary element,
  • Libraries,
  • preliminary,
  • Vertebral Columns,
  • Radixes,
  • supposals,
  • ducat,
  • importance,
  • Outstart,
  • provisions,
  • chief constituent,
  • tentative law,
  • whence it came,
  • foot,
  • fundamental,
  • warm up,
  • openers,
  • jump off,
  • institution,
  • numbers,
  • pre-fab,
  • Principalities,
  • Orphanages,
  • ground,
  • Vertebrae,
  • construction,
  • cause,
  • establishment,
  • ideology,
  • fund,
  • promptings,
  • erection,
  • tune-up,
  • museum,
  • root,
  • origin,
  • backbone,
  • warrants,
  • Lemmas,
  • founding,
  • Principia,
  • nitty-gritty,
  • radix,
  • rhizomes,
  • prefabrication,
  • mid-points,
  • occasion,
  • vertebral column,
  • in formation,
  • creation,
  • warm-ups,
  • domestication,
  • occasions,
  • rock bottom,
  • settlement,
  • Apriority,
  • greasepaints,
  • supplying,
  • starting point,
  • important part,
  • accreditation,
  • piths,
  • earnests,
  • forgings,
  • infrastructure,
  • import,
  • chalk talk,
  • foundation garment,
  • early stages,
  • substratum,
  • Formularization,
  • origins,
  • groundings,
  • cornerstone,
  • Philosophies.
  • pedestal (noun)
  • plinths,
  • mountings,
  • substructures.
  • preliminary (noun)
  • pre-face,
  • pre-faces,
  • pre face,
  • pre faces,
  • pre lude,
  • pre ludes,
  • pre-lude,
  • pre-ambles,
  • first rounds,
  • pre ambles,
  • pre-ludes.
  • preparation (noun)
  • build-up,
  • build-ups,
  • incubation,
  • schoolwork,
  • lead time,
  • incubations,
  • getting ready,
  • homeworks,
  • gestation,
  • homework,
  • putting in order.
  • principle (noun)
  • pre script,
  • pre-script,
  • pre scripts,
  • golden rules.
  • provision (noun)
  • pre arrangements,
  • pro-vision,
  • pre-arrangement,
  • fitting outs,
  • pre-arrangements,
  • providings,
  • pro-viding,
  • pro viding,
  • pro-visions,
  • pro visions,
  • pro vision,
  • equippings,
  • pre arrangement,
  • supplyings,
  • caterings.
  • root (noun)
  • radicles.
  • rudiment (noun)
  • resting place.
  • rudiments (noun)
  • first principle.
  • ruins (noun)
  • ruin.
  • settlement (noun)
  • out posts,
  • in habitancy,
  • out-posts,
  • in-habitancy,
  • in-habitancies,
  • in habitancies,
  • inhabitancies.
  • start (noun)
  • setting outs,
  • startoffs,
  • jump-offs,
  • jumpoff,
  • running starts,
  • start-offs,
  • startoff,
  • start offs,
  • jump offs,
  • jumpoffs.
  • support (noun)
  • stiffener,
  • Fulcra,
  • stiffeners,
  • flotation,
  • stilts,
  • Fulcrums,
  • stave,
  • flotations.
  • theory (noun)
  • pre-sentiment,
  • out-looks,
  • under-standings,
  • under standings,
  • out looks,
  • under standing,
  • under-standing,
  • formularizations,
  • out look,
  • out-look,
  • pre-sentiments,
  • pre sentiments.
  • training (noun)
  • tuneups,
  • up-bringing,
  • coachings,
  • tune ups,
  • domestications,
  • warmups,
  • co aching,
  • co-aching,
  • warmup,
  • up bringing,
  • warm ups,
  • tuneup,
  • tune-ups,
  • chalk talks.
  • underpinning (noun)
  • under-pinning,
  • under pinning.
  • validity (noun)
  • validness,
  • legitimacy.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • position.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • rafter,
  • the YWCA,
  • soup kitchen,
  • benefactor,
  • organization,
  • rudiment,
  • scaffold,
  • joist,
  • Jaycee,
  • fundraiser,
  • the YMCA,
  • OXFAM,
  • rotary club,
  • poster child,
  • stanchion,
  • pivotal,
  • trestle,
  • the Peace Corps,
  • THE Y,
  • aid agency,
  • aid worker,
  • philanthropist,
  • flying buttress,
  • food bank.
  •
  • patron,
  • cradle,
  • framework,
  • fabric,
  • hulk,
  • warrant,
  • rail,
  • i-beam,
  • rib,
  • start up,
  • upright,
  • bed,
  • truss,
  • heel,
  • vaulting,
  • brace,
  • gantry,
  • faculty,
  • strut,
  • charity,
  • fulcrum,
  • buttress,
  • stilt.
  •
  • bracket,
  • constitution,
  • rock.
  •
  • body,
  • capital,
  • pivot.
  •
  • surround,
  • module.
  •
  • stud.
  •
  • pile.
  •
  • mount.
  •
  • track.
  •
  • support.
  • basis
  • basis.
  • make up
  • blush,
  • eyeliner,
  • kumkum,
  • shadow,
  • face powder,
  • blusher,
  • lip balm,
  • powder,
  • lip-gloss,
  • bindi,
  • talc,
  • eye shadow,
  • pancake,
  • mascara,
  • rouge,
  • liner,
  • war paint,
  • eyebrow pencil,
  • compact,
  • kohl,
  • talcum powder,
  • highlighter.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • prep,
  • mopboard,
  • cellar,
  • supporting structure,
  • motive,
  • crux,
  • producer,
  • fictive,
  • false,
  • based on,
  • final,
  • propositional function,
  • mobilization,
  • rationalization,
  • give rise,
  • seat,
  • send off,
  • buns,
  • bank,
  • blast off,
  • pavement,
  • coral reef,
  • instalment,
  • Suscitate,
  • appanage,
  • uniformly,
  • stand,
  • infantry,
  • induction,
  • regularly,
  • create,
  • axiom,
  • agree,
  • nail polish,
  • buttocks,
  • tryout,
  • corset,
  • Familiarization,
  • broadly,
  • ultimate,
  • set on foot,
  • unveiling,
  • spadework,
  • insane asylum,
  • take off,
  • extraction,
  • statement,
  • animal foot,
  • inner,
  • tail end,
  • makeready,
  • stern,
  • invertebrate foot,
  • leaven,
  • trigger,
  • customarily,
  • insertion,
  • lip rouge,
  • good reason,
  • mental institution,
  • dado,
  • routinely,
  • etymology,
  • intimate,
  • categorical proposition,
  • necessity,
  • paint,
  • drugstore complexion,
  • cold cream,
  • descent,
  • ungrounded,
  • nates,
  • intro,
  • forged,
  • tail,
  • bearing wall,
  • frequently,
  • snags,
  • truth-value,
  • original,
  • ancient,
  • metrical unit,
  • according to,
  • practicality,
  • baseline,
  • clearing the decks,
  • basal,
  • give origin to,
  • conclusive,
  • undercarriage,
  • manage,
  • equipment,
  • Sumption,
  • often,
  • term,
  • vanishing cream,
  • principally,
  • guy wire,
  • business establishment,
  • cutting edge,
  • organize,
  • pes,
  • Point d'appui,
  • gist,
  • Stereobate,
  • ironical,
  • earth,
  • misnamed,
  • genesis,
  • elementary,
  • clown white,
  • primitive,
  • Primum Mobile,
  • mudpack,
  • anchorage,
  • apology,
  • population,
  • Peopling,
  • thirds,
  • actually,
  • fabricated,
  • genealogy,
  • intrinsic,
  • mostly,
  • interior,
  • block,
  • bum,
  • ass,
  • Syrtis,
  • setting up,
  • puff,
  • opening,
  • basically,
  • root word,
  • manufacture,
  • metrical foot,
  • launch,
  • materialization,
  • definitely,
  • initial,
  • subvention,
  • hold,
  • treatment,
  • minor premise,
  • make up,
  • bring on,
  • approximately,
  • bait,
  • supposititious,
  • colonization,
  • internal,
  • Preliminaries,
  • fictitious,
  • inward,
  • substrate,
  • fixation,
  • breakers,
  • kindle,
  • background,
  • supporter,
  • theme,
  • settling,
  • source,
  • determine,
  • mooring,
  • excuse,
  • lee shore,
  • trial,
  • surely,
  • installment,
  • baseless,
  • platform,
  • bring about,
  • investiture,
  • keel,
  • ft,
  • mainly,
  • according,
  • prove,
  • introductory,
  • factitious,
  • hind end,
  • hardpan,
  • nucleotide,
  • beginning,
  • averagely,
  • explanation,
  • bearing,
  • setting in motion,
  • fount,
  • fountain-head,
  • world,
  • set afloat,
  • vanity case,
  • psychiatric hospital,
  • processing,
  • accomplish,
  • sustentation,
  • shelf,
  • Forming,
  • making ready,
  • comply,
  • fabulous,
  • bedding,
  • extenuation,
  • quicksands,
  • mental hospital,
  • demonstrate,
  • argument,
  • bag,
  • administer,
  • in the main,
  • behind,
  • conception,
  • breakers ahead,
  • arrange,
  • human foot,
  • condonation,
  • prat,
  • substance,
  • mental home,
  • foundational,
  • marriage portion,
  • groundless,
  • bilge,
  • shallows,
  • radical,
  • knowledgeability,
  • phony,
  • ordinarily,
  • flooring,
  • proposition,
  • lead,
  • DO,
  • base of operations,
  • arrangement,
  • hypothesis ad hoc,
  • organisation,
  • first principles,
  • prepping,
  • square one,
  • normally,
  • vindication,
  • pretreatment,
  • produce,
  • story,
  • provenance,
  • butt,
  • scaffolding,
  • tower,
  • hand cream,
  • fresh start,
  • birth,
  • landing place,
  • readying,
  • premiss,
  • right,
  • solid ground,
  • socle,
  • derriere,
  • backside,
  • mainstay,
  • rump,
  • design,
  • outset,
  • basic training,
  • alkali,
  • surreptitious,
  • fixture,
  • talcum,
  • al-Qa'ida,
  • assertion,
  • postulation,
  • primarily,
  • generally,
  • Occasioner,
  • toe,
  • oncoming,
  • wainscot,
  • Stylobate,
  • cultivate,
  • mitigation,
  • flag,
  • Provenience,
  • Underbuilding,
  • Preparing,
  • solid rock,
  • universe,
  • ground floor,
  • defence,
  • briefing,
  • Apriorism,
  • fanny,
  • inception,
  • basely,
  • cosmos,
  • training,
  • unfounded,
  • construct,
  • detail,
  • call,
  • hand lotion,
  • truth-function,
  • Postulatum,
  • build,
  • purpose,
  • existence,
  • deck,
  • reinforcement,
  • tush,
  • mounting,
  • knowledgeableness,
  • structure,
  • primeval,
  • kick off,
  • edge,
  • fond,
  • inherent,
  • assumed position,
  • cope,
  • portion,
  • mental,
  • Philosopheme,
  • flat,
  • asylum,
  • ben trovato,
  • baseboard,
  • onset,
  • commonly,
  • primordial,
  • fixing,
  • spring,
  • floor,
  • Carped,
  • chiefly,
  • rocks,
  • installation,
  • theorem,
  • Elusory,
  • formation,
  • dowry,
  • agent,
  • broach,
  • Syrt,
  • introduction,
  • sands,
  • alpha,
  • Prosyllogism,
  • prerequisite,
  • jointure,
  • postulate,
  • plinth,
  • guy,
  • usually,
  • invented,
  • make,
  • lodgment,
  • stepping-stone,
  • untrue,
  • legal jointure,
  • macrocosm,
  • ancestry,
  • soi-disant,
  • proceedings,
  • terra firma,
  • locus standi,
  • SHOALS,
  • creative activity,
  • by and large,
  • can,
  • illusory,
  • underlying,
  • configuration,
  • roughly,
  • stem,
  • propaedeutic,
  • assumption,
  • dot,
  • warp,
  • originate,
  • naturally,
  • basic,
  • thesis,
  • data,
  • rationale,
  • reefs,
  • certainly,
  • dower,
  • major premise,
  • primary,
  • plea,
  • appoint,
  • presupposition,
  • commencement,
  • excogitation,
  • realization,
  • on the whole,
  • paving,
  • inborn,
  • accede,
  • coarsely,
  • stage,
  • rudimentary,
  • handle,
  • Underlayer,
  • affirmation,
  • Organizing,
  • home,
  • author,
  • erect,
  • Measures,
  • Substruction,
  • investment,
  • to,
  • palliation,
  • hindquarters,
  • fundamental principle,
  • cosmetics,
  • Pou sto,
  • assuredly,
  • invention,
  • truth table,
  • sill,
  • keister,
  • outbreak,
  • essential,
  • effectuation,
  • takeoff,
  • Instituting,
  • unsubstantial,
  • undergirding,
  • rise,
  • planning,
  • start-up,
  • Riprap,
  • arse.

How to use "Foundation" in context?

Paraphrases for Foundation:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    fundacion, fondazione.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    grounding, fondation.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    footing.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    association, founded, founding, institution, women, Associations, Fellowships, Permits, Surveys, takes, helps, professors, assessments, benchmarks, investigations, trials, CRS, fondation.
  • Noun, plural
    founded, Trustees, partners, beginnings, entrepreneurs.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    association, founding, institution, justification, mainstay, reason, Underpinning.
  • Verb, past tense
    founded.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    links, Forms, relies, builds, underpins, depends.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    corporation, endowment, frames, fund, institute, corporations, stichting, stiftung.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    bedrock, corporation, endowment, fund, inception, institute, platform, consortia.

Hyponym for Foundation:

• n.

  • group
    financial institution, Financial Organisation, financial organization.
  • linkdef
    relation.