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Meaning of founding mother | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˌfaʊndɪŋ ˈmʌðə

Definitions

A woman who founded (established or started) something.

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Examples

Finally there is a comprehensive, well-documented life of founding mother Elizabeth Cady Stanton: In Her Own Right, by Elisabeth Griffith. Griffith focuses upon both the life and the social atmosphere which led to the beginnings of the first wave of American feminism.”
She (Audrey Lorde) is a member of the founding collective of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press and a founding mother of SISA, Sisterhood in Support of Sisters in South Africa.”
There could even be a case made for treating Jane Harrison as a founding mother of social science (Beard, 2000).”
The initial founding mother, Eve, becomes a paradigmatic figure in later Jewish and Christian exegesis[…]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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