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fountain

noun
/ˈfaʊn.tɪn/UK/ˈfaʊn.tn̩/US

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?]; from Old French fontaine (whence modern fontaine); from Late Latin fontana, from Latin fontanus, fontaneus, adjectives from fons (“source, spring”).

  1. derived from fontanus
  2. derived from fontana
  3. derived from fontaine

Definitions

  1. A natural source of water

    A natural source of water; a spring.

    • A little fountaine became a riuer, and there was light, & the Sunne, and much water: this riuer is Eſther, whō the King married and made Queene.

  2. An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place)…

    An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.

    • His house is right beside that fountain on Street 15.

  3. The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.

    • As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.

      • They heard her rouse the sleeping servant, and with her enter the kitchen; then the noise of a fire being lighted and the fountain being filled came to the watchers.

    2. A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).

      • Nothing will pleaſe ſome Men, but Books ſtuff’d with Antiquity, groaning under the weight of Learned Quotations drawn from the Fountains: And what is all this but Pilfering.
      • My lighter moods are like to these, ⁠That out of words a comfort win; ⁠But there are other griefs within, And tears that at their fountain freeze; […]

    3. A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.

      • Crest : A boar's head couped gold semy of fountains armed gules. Motto : REMIS VELISQUE. Granted by the College of Arms 1966.
      • Argent, seme of fountains on a chief azure a Lorraine cross and an oak leaf of the first. Crest, None. Motto, Able and Ready. The blue of the shield represents Infantry. The fountains are emblematic of Arizona,[…]

    4. A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught…

      A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.

    5. A soda fountain.

      • He takes out a soup bowl, fills it with Pepsi from the fountain, and places it carefully on the counter in front of the boy. “That'll be a quarter,” he says professionally.
      • A Sproke was a soft drink Gloria and I had created with Jimbo’s help at the Banana Shack. It was basically fountain Coke mixed with fountain Sprite.

    6. A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.

    7. A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.

    8. Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.

    9. To flow or gush as if from a fountain.

      • Lava fountained from the volcano.

    10. A placename

      A placename:

    11. A topographic surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

air fountain, chain fountain, drinking fountain, fire fountain, fountain apple moss, fountain chair, fountain code, Fountaindale, fountain drink, fountaineer, fountain effect, fountaingrass, fountainhead, fountain lamp, fountainless, fountainlet, fountainlike, fountain of youth, fountainous, fountain pen, fountain pressure, Fountains Earth, fountain shell, fountain water, fountainwise, Heron's fountain, ice fountain, ink fountain, kugel fountain, soda fountain, soda fountain chair, water fountain

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fountain. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA