"Founding Father" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "First used by then-U.S. senator Warren G. Harding in his keynote speech at the 1916 Republican National Convention.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Founding Fathers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "Founding Father (plural Founding Fathers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        },
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "American Revolution",
          "orig": "en:American Revolution",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "History of the United States",
          "orig": "en:History of the United States",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "United States",
          "orig": "en:United States",
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              149,
              165
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104:",
          "text": "At the heart of it, I thought of the Great Society as an extension of the Bill of Rights. When our fundamental American rights were set forth by the Founding Fathers, they reflected the concerns of a people who sought freedom in their time. But in our time a broadened concept of freedom requires that every American have the right to a healthy body, a full education, a decent home, and the opportunity to develop to the best of his talents.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of the men who were responsible for the founding of the United States of America. Chiefly used to refer to political leaders who drafted and signed the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, and to military leaders who fought in the American Revolutionary War."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "United States of America",
          "United States of America"
        ],
        [
          "American Revolutionary War",
          "American Revolutionary War"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly US, chiefly in the plural) Any of the men who were responsible for the founding of the United States of America. Chiefly used to refer to political leaders who drafted and signed the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, and to military leaders who fought in the American Revolutionary War."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "founding father"
        },
        {
          "word": "Founding Mothers"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "in-plural"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "dampuʒnebeli mama",
          "sense": "man who founded something",
          "word": "დამფუძნებელი მამა"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "man who founded something",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Gründervater der USA"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "1916 Republican National Convention",
        "Founding Fathers of the United States",
        "United States Declaration of Independence",
        "Warren G. Harding"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Founding Father"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "First used by then-U.S. senator Warren G. Harding in his keynote speech at the 1916 Republican National Convention.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Founding Fathers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "Founding Father"
      },
      "expansion": "Founding Father (plural Founding Fathers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "founding father"
    },
    {
      "word": "Founding Mothers"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Georgian translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "en:American Revolution",
        "en:History of the United States",
        "en:United States"
      ],
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            [
              149,
              165
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104:",
          "text": "At the heart of it, I thought of the Great Society as an extension of the Bill of Rights. When our fundamental American rights were set forth by the Founding Fathers, they reflected the concerns of a people who sought freedom in their time. But in our time a broadened concept of freedom requires that every American have the right to a healthy body, a full education, a decent home, and the opportunity to develop to the best of his talents.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of the men who were responsible for the founding of the United States of America. Chiefly used to refer to political leaders who drafted and signed the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, and to military leaders who fought in the American Revolutionary War."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "United States of America",
          "United States of America"
        ],
        [
          "American Revolutionary War",
          "American Revolutionary War"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly US, chiefly in the plural) Any of the men who were responsible for the founding of the United States of America. Chiefly used to refer to political leaders who drafted and signed the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, and to military leaders who fought in the American Revolutionary War."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "in-plural"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "1916 Republican National Convention",
        "Founding Fathers of the United States",
        "United States Declaration of Independence",
        "Warren G. Harding"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "dampuʒnebeli mama",
      "sense": "man who founded something",
      "word": "დამფუძნებელი მამა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "man who founded something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Gründervater der USA"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Founding Father"
}