fountain
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fountain¹
- /ˈfaʊn.tɪn/ UK
- [ˈfaʊn.tn̩] US
- [ˈfaʊn.ʔn̩] US
Rhymes with -aʊntɪn
Where it comes from
From Middle English [Term?]; from Old French fontaine (whence modern fontaine); from Late Latin fontana, from Latin fontanus, fontaneus, adjectives from fons (“source, spring”).
noun fountains
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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.
Similar: fount, syke, wellspring
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
- 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 drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.
- A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
- Anything that resembles a fountain in operation. 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
verb fountains · fountaining · fountained
- To flow or gush as if from a fountain. Lava fountained from the volcano.
Fountain²
Where it comes from
Topographic surname for someone who lived near a fountain, spring or well.
proper noun Fountains
- A ghost town in Mendocino County, California, United States.
- A city in El Paso County, Colorado, United States, named after Fountain Creek (Arkansas River tributary).
- An unincorporated community in Bay County, Florida, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Illinois, United States.
- A city in Fountain County, Indiana, United States, USA formerly known as Portland.
- A village in Mason County, Michigan, United States.
- A city in Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States.
- A town in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States.
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Synonym of Fountaintown, North Carolina.
Similar: Fountaintown, North Carolina
- An unincorporated community in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States.
- A town in Juneau County, Wisconsin, United States.
- A topographic surname.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: fount, outpouring, outflow, spring, jet, natural spring, wellspring, pool, waterworks, pit, barrel, pen, pencil, tree, source, brook
Translations
Every language
noun artificial water feature
| Español | fuente, chafariz, fontana |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 분수 bunsu |
| 日本語 | 噴水 funsui |
| 中文 | 噴泉 /喷泉 pēnquán, 噴水池 /喷水池 pēnshuǐchí |
| हिन्दी | सोता sotā, फ़व्वारा favvārā |
| Português | fonte, chafariz |
| Français | fontaine |
| Deutsch | Springbrunnen, Brunnen, Fontäne |
| Italiano | fontana |
| Ελληνικά | σιντριβάνι sintriváni |
| Română | fântână |
| Русский | фонта́н fontán |
| Tiếng Việt | suối nước, đài phun nước |
| العربية | نَافُورَة nāfūra, فَوَّارَة fawwāra |
| עברית | מִזרָקָה mizraká |
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