Fount
1 fount — fount, font These are the traditional British and American spellings respectively of the term meaning ‘a set of printing type of one size or face’. Font is now also used in BrE, and is rapidly ousting fount. Both words are only remotely connected …
2 Fount — can refer to:* A spring or fountain (mostly literary or poetic), and thus, metaphorically, a source of something beneficial (as in fount of knowledge, wisdom etc.) * The traditional English spelling of the once Americanized (1828) font (i.e.… …
3 fount — fount1 [fount] n. [ME font < OFr < L fons, FOUNTAIN] 1. Old Poet. a fountain or spring 2. a source fount2 [fount] n. Brit. FONT2 …
4 Fount — Fount, n. [See {Font}.] (Print.) A font. [1913 Webster] …
5 Fount — Fount, n. [OF. font, funt, fr. L. fons, fontis, a fountain; of uncertain origin, perh. akin to fundere to pour, E. found to cast. Cf. {Font}.] A fountain. [1913 Webster] …
6 fount — [faunt] n [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: fountain] the fount of all knowledge/wisdom etc literary the place, person, idea etc that all knowledge, ↑wisdom etc comes from …
7 fount — [ faunt ] noun count LITERARY a FOUNTAIN a fount of knowledge/wisdom/advice/ideas, etc. OFTEN HUMOROUS a person, organization, book etc. that provides a lot of information, advice, or ideas …
8 fount — mid 15c., probably a shortening of FOUNTAIN (Cf. fountain), influenced by M.Fr. font fount …
9 fount — fount·ful; fount; …
10 fount — index derivation, fund, source Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
11 fount — [1] ► NOUN 1) a source of a desirable quality. 2) literary a spring or fountain. ORIGIN from FOUNTAIN(Cf. ↑fountain) …
12 fount — UK [faʊnt] / US noun [countable] Word forms fount : singular fount plural founts literary a fountain • a fount of knowledge/wisdom/advice/ideas etc often humorous a person, organization, book etc that provides a lot of information, advice, or… …
13 fount — [[t]fa͟ʊnt[/t]] founts N COUNT: usu sing, N of n If you describe a person or thing as the fount of something, you are saying that they are an important source or supply of it. [LITERARY] To the young boy his father was the fount of all knowledge …
14 fount — I [[t]faʊnt[/t]] n. 1) a spring of water; fountain 2) a source or origin: a fount of ideas[/ex] • Etymology: 1585–95; short for fountain II fount [[t]faʊnt, fɒnt[/t]] n. brit. font II …
15 fount — fount1 /fownt/, n. 1. a spring of water; fountain. 2. a source or origin: a fount of inspiration to his congregation. [1585 95; short for FOUNTAIN] fount2 /fownt, font/, n. Print. Brit. font2. * * * …
16 fount — noun a) something from which water flows He is a real fount of knowledge! b) a device from which poultry may drink Syn: font, fountain, waterer …
17 fount — noun (C) 1 the fount of all knowledge/wisdom etc literary or humorous the place, person, idea etc that all knowledge, wisdom etc comes from; source 1 (1) 2 BrE technical a complete set of letters of one kind and size used to print books,… …
18 fount — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French funte, founte, from Latin font , fons Date: 15th century fountain, source II. noun Etymology: French fonte, from Middle French more at font Date: circa 1683 British a type fo …
19 fount — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A point of origination: beginning, derivation, fountain, fountainhead, mother, origin, parent, provenance, provenience, root1, rootstock, source, spring, well1. See START …
20 fount — faÊŠnt n. fountain, source …
