How do you use the word "foundation" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "foundation" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "foundation": Students have a holiday on Foundation Day. Our company had the fortieth anniversary of its foundation.

Foundation Meaning

/ˌfaʊ̯nˈdeɪ̯ʃən/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

nounThat upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; underbuilding.

Sentence Examples

Students have a holiday on Foundation Day.

Our company had the fortieth anniversary of its foundation.

Respect and friendship provide a solid foundation for marriage.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

foot base groundwork

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The entire weight of the structure rests on its concrete ____.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

A strong ____ is essential for building a house that can withstand the test of time.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- ~ *dʰubʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-mḗn Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗnder. Proto-Italic *funðos Latin fundus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin fundō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fundātiōder. Old French fondacionbor. Middle English foundacioun English foundation From Middle English foundacioun, fundacioun, from Old French fondacion, from Latin fundātiō (“founding, foundation”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Aye Madam to be sure that is the Provoking circumstance—without Foundation—yes yes—there's the mortification indeed—for when a slanderous story is believed against one—there certainly is no comfort like the consciousness of having deserved it——" — 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii:

"Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete." — 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

"The implication is that the Gandhian model of growth is possible, now that Nehru's investment strategy had already laid a strong foundation for economic growth." — 2006, K P Yadav, Economic Planning And Restructuring, Sarup & Sons, →ISBN, page 44:

"“Marge Gets A Job” opens with the foundation of the Simpson house tilting perilously to one side, making the family homestead look like the suburban equivalent of the Leaning Tower Of Pisa." — 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:

"Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it." — 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

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