Fontenelle

/ fɔ̃tənɛl /

noun

1. Bernard le Bovier de (bɛrnar lə bɔvje də). 1657–1757, French philosopher. His writings include Digressions sur les anciens et les modernes (1688) and Éléments de la géométrie de l'infini (1727)

Example Sentences

Cole Fontenelle and Austin Davis homered in the third to put TCU up 3-0 against the No. 14 Sycamores, who had come from behind in each of their three regional wins.

From Seattle Times

Michel Enten, manager of the Le Fontenelle cinema in the town of Marly-le-Roi west of Paris, was relieved to stay open, even if he’ll no longer be able to sell cotton candy, popcorn, ices and drinks.

From Seattle Times

In the photo, a beleaguered-seeming Bessie Fontenelle and four of her children huddle at a local social services office called the Poverty Board.

From Los Angeles Times

For more than two decades he raised awareness of the Black experience in America in extraordinary works including 1948 street scenes when he was embedded with the Harlem gang leader Red Jackson; a 1957 photo essay, “Atmosphere of Crime,” on policing in marginalized urban areas; his 1963 images of protests against police brutality, and his 1967 exposé of poverty, documenting the Fontenelle family in Harlem.

From New York Times

On the Continent resistance to Newtonianism continued into the 1740s and involved key intellectual figures such as Huygens, Leibniz and Fontenelle.

From Literature