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foundry

found·ry
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [foun-dree]
    • /ˈfaʊn dri/
    • /ˈfaʊn.dri/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [foun-dree]
    • /ˈfaʊn dri/

Definitions of foundry word

  • noun plural foundry an establishment for producing castings in molten metal. 1
  • noun plural foundry the act or process of founding or casting metal. 1
  • noun plural foundry the category of metal objects made by founding; castings. 1
  • noun foundry A workshop or factory for casting metal. 1
  • noun foundry metal factory 1
  • countable noun foundry A foundry is a place where metal or glass is melted and formed into particular shapes. 0

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Origin of foundry

First appearance:

before 1595
One of the 38% oldest English words
From the French word fonderie, dating back to 1595-1605. See found3, -ery

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Parts of speech for Foundry

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

foundry popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 85% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

foundry usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for foundry

noun foundry

  • shop — a retail store, especially a small one.
  • forge — to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.
  • factory — a building or group of buildings with facilities for the manufacture of goods.
  • plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.

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