The Only Use of
founder
in
Anna Karenina
Uses with a very rare meaning:
- And with all this, Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his origin, he ought not to stop at Rurik and disown the first founder of his family—the monkey.†
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Definition:
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) A less common meaning refers to someone who manufactures things made from cast metal.