foundress
/foun-dris/US // ˈfaʊn drɪs //
创始者,创始人,创办人,创办者
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 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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