FOUNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fount mean? 

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

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

2. a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water

  Familiarity information: FOUNT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOUNT (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 ("fount" is a kind of...):

type (printed characters)

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

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 ("fount" is a member of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fount; fountain

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

plumbing fixture (a fixture for the distribution and use of water in a building)

 Context examples 

The blessed woman was an unfailing fount of power to me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Their stringy muscles seemed founts of inexhaustible energy.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts—in short, said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, they are weaned—and Mrs. Micawber is, at present, my travelling companion.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

While arranging my hair, I looked at my face in the glass, and felt it was no longer plain: there was hope in its aspect and life in its colour; and my eyes seemed as if they had beheld the fount of fruition, and borrowed beams from the lustrous ripple.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Indomitable, never resting, fighting for seconds and minutes all week, circumventing delays and crushing down obstacles, a fount of resistless energy, a high-driven human motor, a demon for work, now that he had accomplished the week's task he was in a state of collapse.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And long before his eyes had opened he had learned by touch, taste, and smell to know his mother—a fount of warmth and liquid food and tenderness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There was a heaven—a temporary heaven—in this room for me, if I chose: I had but to go in and to say—"Mr. Rochester, I will love you and live with you through life till death," and a fount of rapture would spring to my lips.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)