founding

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of found

   So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.

   1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343

plural foundings

1. countableuncountableThe establishment of an institution; initial creation.

   the founding of the republic

   2 more examples

   the founding of a charity school

   Do foundings of transnational organizations appear to spur foundings of national organizations, or vice versa?

   2005, Donatella Della Porta, Sidney G. Tarrow, Transnational Protest and Global Activism

2. countableuncountableMetalworking, as carried out in a foundry.

   metal founding

1. not comparableWho or that founds (establishes or starts) or founded.

   the founding fathers of our country