fount
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noun
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poetic a spring or fountain
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source or origin
noun
Etymology
Origin of fount
First recorded in 1585–95; short for fountain
Example Sentences
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The 99-year-old artist—long excluded from the mainstream, male-dominated art scene in Mexico, and who only had her first major retrospective last year—is a quiet yet forceful fount of tenderness.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
While Chris Pratt may have been a fount of charisma in the early 2010s, his well dried up by the time he ever got in front of a green-screened tyrannosaurus.
From Salon • Jul. 3, 2025
“He was a fount of historical experience and knowledge.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2024
Hip-hop is a fount of constant innovation; a historical text ripe for pilfering; a continuation of rock, soul and jazz traditions that also explicitly loosens their cultural grip.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2023
We fount the store on the paper and the cap’n tolt me to wait whilst he went in and talked to a man setting at a counter.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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