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foundress

/foun-dris/US // ˈfaʊn drɪs //

创始者,创始人,创办人,创办者

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a woman who establishes something, as an institution or religious order; founder.

Examples

  • Fabiola, at Rome, is the foundress of the first important hospital in that city.

  • Was not the princess and foundress of good arts, Minerva, born of the brain of highest Jove, a woman?

  • The daughter of the foundress, named Mildred, ruled over the community, and afterwards was canonized.

  • The finest of the towers was erected in 1242 by Hugues of Lusignan, and named after Mlusine, the mythical foundress of the family.

  • We cannot believe that Wadham escaped the contagion, and remained what its Foundress meant it to be.

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