(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.
“Well, if it’s 6 May, that can only mean one thing. Yes, indeed: the 290th anniversary of inventor, scientist, statesman and US ‘founding father’ Benjamin Franklin telling readers of his Pennsylvania Gazette about a mermaid sighting in Bermuda 🧵”
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