## Meanings
1. To start or create something that is meant to last, such as a company or organization.
2. To prove that something is true.
3. To make something firm or permanent; to gain acceptance.

## Examples
- They established the charity in 1990.
- The police worked hard to establish the facts of the case.
- It took years for the new brand to establish itself in the market.

## Derived Forms
- disestablish
- establishable
- establisher
- establishment
- long-established
- preestablish
- re-establish
- reestablish
- unestablish

## Related Forms
- stable

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: establissen
- Root: stabilio

## Etymology
From Middle English establissen, from Old French establiss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of establir, (Modern French établir), from Latin stabiliō, stabilīre, from stabilis (“firm, steady, stable”).

## AI Etymology
Establish comes from Middle English establissen, from Old French establiss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of establir, (Modern French établir), from Latin stabiliō, stabilīre, from stabilis (“firm, steady, stable”). In current use, the main senses are “To start or create something that is meant to last, such as a company or organization” and “To prove that something is true”.

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- Cause, Change & Process

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