fount

/faunt/

Thân thiện

A clear stream of water flows from the stone fount in the village square.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water: A device, often decorative, from which water flows, such as a drinking fountain or a fountainhead.
   • A specific size and style of type within a type family: (In printing and typography) A complete set of type of one particular face and size.

Examples of Usage

• Noun (Water fixture):

  • The marble fount in the town square is a popular meeting spot.
  • The public park installed a new drinking fount for visitors.

• Noun (Typography):

  • The book was printed using a beautiful old-style fount.
  • The designer selected a bold sans-serif fount for the headlines.

Advanced Usage

• "Fount of knowledge/wisdom": (Figurative, chiefly literary) A person or thing regarded as a source of valuable information or inspiration.
  • The elderly professor was considered a fount of wisdom by his students.
  • The ancient library was a fount of knowledge for scholars.

Variants and Related Words

• Fountain (n): A more common synonym for the water fixture meaning; also a natural or artificial spring of water.
• Font (n): The modern and more common spelling for the typography meaning. "Fount" is an older, chiefly British spelling for this sense.
• Typeface (n): The design of a set of characters (e.g., Times New Roman), of which a "fount" is a specific size instance.

Synonyms

• Water fixture meaning: Fountain, spout, spring, wellspring.
• Typography meaning: Font, typeface (though "typeface" refers more to the design family).

Related Phrases

• Fount of all goodness: (Idiomatic, literary) The ultimate source of moral virtue.
  • In her eyes, her grandmother was the fount of all goodness.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water
2. a specific size and style of type within a type family

Từ đồng nghĩa

• fountain
• font
• typeface
• face
• case