OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9801

fount

/faʊnt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fuente
Synonym of fountain (“a natural source of water”); a spring.
And what adds beauty to utility, and both finely blended, is the fountain in the front door yard. The jet is about ten feet high, the water falling into a circular fount, or reserv…
High to their fount, this day, amid the hills, / And vvoodlands vvarbling round, trace up the brooks; […]
fuente
That from which something proceeds; an origin, a source.
He is a real fount of knowledge!
O, I see the crescent promise of my spirit hath not set. / Ancient founts of inspiration well thro' all my fancy yet.
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