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font¹
- /fɒnt/ UK
- /fɑnt/ US
Rhymes with -ɒnt
Where it comes from
From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fōns, fontis (“fountain”).
noun fonts
-
A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself.
Similar: stoup
- A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
font²
- /fɒnt/ UK
- /fɑnt/ US
Rhymes with -ɒnt
Where it comes from
From Middle French fonte (“act or process of founding or melting; act of producing items from molten metal; cast iron; set of type”) (modern French fonte), either:
* from fondre (“to melt, melt down; to smelt”), from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere, the present active infinitive of fundō (“to pour out; to make by smelting, found”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”); or
* from Late Latin *fundita, a noun use of funditus, a perfect passive participle form of Latin fundō (see above; the classical Latin form is fūsus).
noun fonts · fount
- In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
- In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
- In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
- A typeface.
- A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer. They bought a license for the Gulliver font and installed that font on several machines.
-
The design of any text.
I like the font of this logo.
Similar: lettering
verb fonts · fonting · fonted · fount
- To overlay (text) on the picture. When figures or quotes are thought helpful to understanding a spot, they're "fonted" over the cover picture.
font³
- /fɒnt/ UK
- /fɑnt/ US
Rhymes with -ɒnt
Where it comes from
Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).
noun fonts
- A source, wellspring, fount. 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in The arts of which these lands were once the font
Font⁴
Where it comes from
Clipping of Fontainebleau.
proper noun
- # Clipping of Fontainebleau: a town near Paris, in Seine-et-Marne department, Île-de-France, France.
Font⁵
Where it comes from
* As a southern French and Catalan surname, from font (“spring, well”).
* As an English surname, variant of Fant.
proper noun Fonts
- A surname
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: baptistry, baptismal font, baptistery, typeface, fount, face, scripture, originator, trait, character, form, letter, provider, source, cause, make
Translations
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noun a receptacle in church for holy water
| Español | pila |
|---|---|
| Português | pia, fonte |
| Français | fonts |
| Deutsch | Weihwasserbecken, Taufbecken |
| Italiano | acquasantiera, pila, fonte |
| Ελληνικά | κολυμβήθρα kolymvíthra |
| Русский | купе́ль kupélʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | bình đựng nước thánh, chậu nước thánh |
noun a receptacle for oil in a lamp
| Español | depósito |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Ölreservoir |
| Italiano | serbatoio |
| Tiếng Việt | bình dầu, bầu dầu |
noun typesetting: a grouping of consistently-designed glyphs
| Español | tipo de letra, tipografía, fuente |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 자체 jache, 글꼴 geulkkol, 자형 jahyeong, 폰트 ponteu, 서체 seoche |
| 日本語 | 字体 jitai, フォント fonto, 字形 jikei |
| 中文 | 字體 /字体 zìtǐ, 字形 zìxíng |
| हिन्दी | फ़ॉन्ट fŏnṭ |
| Kiswahili | fonti |
| Português | fonte, letra, tipo de letra |
| Français | fonte, police |
| Deutsch | Schriftart, Schrift |
| Italiano | carattere |
| Ελληνικά | γραμματοσειρά grammatoseirá, γραμματοστοιχείο grammatostoicheío |
| Română | font, corp de literă |
| Русский | шрифт šrift, фонт font |
| Tiếng Việt | phông, phông chữ |
| العربية | خَطّ ḵaṭṭ, بُنْط bunṭ |
| עברית | גּוֹפָן gofán |
noun computer file used to draw glyphs
| Español | fuente |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 글꼴 geulkkol |
| 日本語 | 字体 jitai, フォント fonto |
| 中文 | 字體 /字体 zìtǐ, 字形 zìxíng |
| Português | fonte |
| Français | police d'écriture |
| Deutsch | Font, Zeichensatz, Schriftart |
| Italiano | font |
| Ελληνικά | γραμματοσειρά grammatoseirá |
| Русский | шрифт šrift, фонт font |
| Tiếng Việt | phông, phông chữ |
| العربية | خَطّ ḵaṭṭ, بُنْط bunṭ |
noun source
| Español | fuente |
|---|---|
| Português | fonte |
| Deutsch | Quelle |
| Tiếng Việt | suối nước, nguồn sông |
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