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☆ founding father

  1. someone who founds or is instrumental in founding an institution, nation, etc.
  2. a participant in the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, esp. one who signed the document

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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