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What is the difference between fount and fountain?

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Fountain is a synonym of fount.



As nouns the difference between fount and fountain

is that fount is something from which water flows while fountain is a spring, natural source of water.

As a verb fountain is

to flow or gush as if from a fountain.

fount

English

Etymology 1

Shortening of fountain

Noun

(en noun)
  • something from which water flows
  • a device from which poultry may drink
  • (figuratively) that from which something flows or proceeds
    • He is a real fount of knowledge!
    Synonyms
    * font * fountain * (device from which animals drink) waterer

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) fonte'', feminine past participle of verb ''fondre : to melt.

    Alternative forms

    * font

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (typography, British, dated) A typographic font.

    • References

    * * Bringhurst, Robert (2002). The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.5 , pp 291–2. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. ISBN 0-88179-133-4.

    Anagrams

    *

    fountain

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A spring, natural source of water.
  • An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
  • The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
    • , passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain , and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
  • A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
  • A source, origin of a flow (e.g. of favors, of knowledge).
  • A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that thows it.
  • (label) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
  • (label) A soda fountain.

    • Synonyms

    * fount * wellspring

    Derived terms

    * fountainlet * fountain pen * fountainhead * drinking fountain * soda fountain * water fountain

    Related terms

    * font * fountaineer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
  • * (Tom Reamy), Blind Voices
    • The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.

    External links

    * (wikipedia "fountain")

    Anagrams

    *

    References