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Podcast: Word of the Day
Episode: Foundress
Description: Foundress is a noun that refers to a female founder. It is also a noun that refers to a female leader of a colony.Â
The root word of foundress is founder, which is from Old English and refers to ‘the originator of something.’ The suffix R-E-S-S indicates that we’re talking about a woman. This is true in both definitions of the word. Here’s an example:
The foundress of our company would probably be ashamed to see the kinds of practices we’ve been up to lately. The company she...