founding mother

名词 n.
英 /ˌfaʊndɪŋ ˈmʌðə/    美 /ˌfaʊndɪŋ ˈmʌðɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A woman who founded (established or started) something.
    — 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.

词形变化

founding mothers plural

词源

From founding (“who or that founds (establishes, starts) or founded”) + mother, modelled after founding father.
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