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Definition of "fount" []

  • A fountain. (noun)
  • One that initiates or dispenses; a source: Damascus—the fount of modern Arab nationalism. (noun)
  • Chiefly British Variant of font2. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "fount" in a sentence
  • "There are three very old images, one at the front, and two on the side; the baptismal fount is surrounded by turned wood, and the choral section has a 20th Century organ."
  • "I have no helper76 but my tears that ever flow in fount,"
  • "The rite of my infancy was performed as became a soldier's son; my fount was my father's helmet, and the first pap I sucked lay on the point of his sword."