Foundation and Standard

Foundation

Foundation noun - A public organization with a particular purpose or function.

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Standard and foundation are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Standard" instead a noun "Foundation".

Nearby Words: founder, founded, founding, foundationer

Standard noun - Something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared.

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Foundation and standard are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Foundation" instead a noun "Standard".

good	good foundation	good standard
female	female foundation	female standard
better	better foundation	better standard
uniform	uniform foundation	uniform standard
Other adjectives: original, legal, ethical, actual, great, main, moral, new, basic, modern, global.

Our Dwarves Are All the Same: While Tolkien's works provided the foundation for many standard dwarf characteristics, the film partially bucks many of the trends.

Source: Film / The Hobbit
This becomes a major plot point in one of the later Foundation novels; the length of the standard day and year are used to deduce the identity of humanity's original planet.

Source: Literature / Foundation
In Foundation, Asimov repeatedly refers to the standard Galactic tongue as evolving throughout time, and isolated worlds tend to fall behind, resulting in Ye Olde Butcherede Galacticke Standarde.

Source: Language Drift

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