founder definition ship
The person who creates an organization or a company is known as the founder. Founder is also a verb meaning fail miserably, which is something a company's founder hopes the company will never do. To flounder is to struggle, but to founder is to sink like a stone and fail. Both are fun as nouns, not so fun as verbs. Continue reading...
[Middle English foundren, to sink to the ground, from Old French fondrer, from Vulgar Latin *funderÄre, from *fundus, *funder-, bottom, from Latin fundus, fund-.] Usage Note: The verbs founder and flounder are often confused. Founder comes from a Latin word meaning bottom (as in foundation) and originally referred to knocking enemies down; it is now also used to mean to fail utterly, collapse.. Flounder means to move clumsily, thrash about, and hence to proceed in confusion..