fountain
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
government
heraldry
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
performing-arts
politics
sports
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: fountains
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fountains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fountaining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fountained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fountained
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A natural source of water; a spring.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: His house is right beside that fountain on Street 15.
gloss: The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 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; […]
gloss: A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
pos: noun
examples: 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,[…]
gloss: A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
pos: noun
gloss: A soda fountain.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: 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.
gloss: A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Travellers over the London & North Western main line in bygone days will need no reminder of the pattering of cinders on the carriage roofs, the fountains of sparks from the chimneys at night and the distance from which the exhaust of approaching locomotives could be heard, due to the fierceness of their blast in such conditions.
gloss: To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Lava fountained from the volcano.
The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.
Related words: font
Derived words: air fountain
chain fountain
drinking fountain
fire fountain
fountain apple moss
fountain chair
fountain code
Fountaindale
fountain drink
fountaineer
fountain effect
fountaingrass
fountainhead
Fountain Hills
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
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