fount
1a spring of water; fountain.
a source or origin: a fount of inspiration to his congregation.
Origin of fount
1Other definitions for fount (2 of 2)
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How to use fount in a sentence
But, with all due respect to the Putinized founts of disinformation, that is not where things stand at the moment.
Bernard-Henri Levy: Ukraine’s Revolutionaries Are Not Fascists | Bernard-Henri Lévy | February 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnother campaign aide, Nicole Wallace, and her husband, Mark Wallace, are mentioned as founts of poison on Palin.
How Palin's Resignation Makes Her the True Frontrunner | John Batchelor | July 3, 2009 | THE DAILY BEASTThe poet "as those wreathes up go" sees Helicon's fresh founts flowing clearer and purer.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.Police and soldiers visited every printing works and newspaper office, taking away founts of type and dismantling presses.
The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 4 (of 10) | James Edward ParrottOther Italian printers had founts both of Gothic and of Roman types.
The Art of the Book | Bernard H. Newdigate
He led them straight to the ancient founts of light and life, disregarding the narrow channels hewn by Pharisaic formalism.
Parallel Paths | Thomas William RollestonThe type is entirely reset in the body of the work, although the same founts are used.
British Dictionary definitions for fount (1 of 2)
/ (faʊnt) /
poetic a spring or fountain
source or origin
Origin of fount
1British Dictionary definitions for fount (2 of 2)
/ (faʊnt, fɒnt) /
printing another word for font 2
Origin of fount
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