FONT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does font mean? 

• FONT (noun)
  The noun FONT has 2 senses:

1. a specific size and style of type within a type family

2. bowl for baptismal water

  Familiarity information: FONT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FONT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specific size and style of type within a type family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

case; face; font; fount; typeface

Hypernyms ("font" is a kind of...):

type (printed characters)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "font"):

unicameral script (a script with a single case)

bicameral script (a script having two distinct cases)

constant-width font; fixed-width font; monospaced font; typewriter font (a typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter))

proportional font (any font whose different characters have different widths)

cartridge font; font cartridge (any font that is contained in a cartridge that can be plugged into a computer printer)

black letter; Gothic (a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries)

bold; bold face; boldface (a typeface with thick heavy lines)

italic (a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right)

raster font; screen font (the font that is displayed on a computer screen)

Helvetica; sans serif (a typeface in which characters have no serifs)

Holonyms ("font" is a member of...):

type family (a complete set of type suitable for printing text)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bowl for baptismal water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

baptismal font; baptistery; baptistry; font

Hypernyms ("font" is a kind of...):

basin (a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids)

 Context examples 

Of my walking so proudly and lovingly down the aisle with my sweet wife upon my arm, through a mist of half-seen people, pulpits, monuments, pews, fonts, organs, and church windows, in which there flutter faint airs of association with my childish church at home, so long ago.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So the pot was placed in safety, but it was not long before the cat had a great yearning for it, and said to the mouse: I want to tell you something, little mouse; my cousin has brought a little son into the world, and has asked me to be godmother; he is white with brown spots, and I am to hold him over the font at the christening.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)