fount
1fount — 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 …
2Fount — 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.… …
3fount — fount1 [fount] n. [ME font < OFr < L fons, FOUNTAIN] 1. Old Poet. a fountain or spring 2. a source fount2 [fount] n. Brit. FONT2 …
4Fount — Fount, n. [See {Font}.] (Print.) A font. [1913 Webster] …
5Fount — 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] …
6fount — [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 …
7fount — [ 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 …
8fount — mid 15c., probably a shortening of FOUNTAIN (Cf. fountain), influenced by M.Fr. font fount …
9fount — fount·ful; fount; …
10fount — index derivation, fund, source Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
