See founderesse on Wiktionary
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"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A female founder (of a city or religious house)"
],
"links": [
[
"female",
"female#English"
],
[
"founder",
"founder"
],
[
"city",
"city#English"
],
[
"religious",
"religious#English"
],
[
"house",
"house#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"Late-Middle-English",
"literary",
"uncommon"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A female personification of a source."
],
"links": [
[
"female",
"female#English"
],
[
"personification",
"personification"
],
[
"source",
"source"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) A female personification of a source."
],
"tags": [
"Late-Middle-English",
"figuratively",
"literary",
"uncommon"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A female inventor or nurturer."
],
"links": [
[
"female",
"female#English"
],
[
"inventor",
"inventor"
],
[
"nurturer",
"nurturer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension, rare) A female inventor or nurturer."
],
"tags": [
"Late-Middle-English",
"broadly",
"literary",
"rare",
"uncommon"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˌfuːnd(ə)ˈrɛs(ə)/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfuːnd(ə)ˌrɛs(ə)/"
}
],
"word": "founderesse"
}
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