0 an occasion when an organization, state, etc. is established: --
1 the structures below the surface of the ground that support a building: --
2 an idea or fact that something is based on --
These allegations are completely without foundation.
3 a type of make-up that is spread over the skin of the face, usually before other make-up is put on, giving it a better and more even colour and hiding unwanted marks --
4 the base that is built below the surface of the ground to support a building: --
5 the act of establishing an organization, state, etc.: --
The foundation of the children’s home was made possible by a generous contributor.
Much of the material on nunneries is delicate work on uncertain and poorly-documented foundations.
The fire destroyed the buildings, but at the same time transformed them into baked clay and thereby preserved them as foundations for new buildings.
In other words, cisterns, foundations, and the waterproofing system proceeded in parallel.
On some sites even the foundations were prefabricated.
The first question leads us back to the foundations of human culture.
The gradual increase in household autonomy challenged the social, ceremonial and economic foundations of the neighbourhood communities.
I take this to mean that it is actually difficult to unravel the assumptions of archaeological analysis without questioning the foundations of modernist thought.
Aesthetic foundations provide the pretext for forcing women to act and then condemning them for doing so.
