Font

/fɒnt/ · noun

Meaning

(Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
2. A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
3. (typography) A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
4. (originally computing, typography, informal) A typeface.
5. (computing, typography, metonymic) 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.
6. (informal) The design of any text.
7. (transitive, television, informal) To overlay (text) on the picture.
8. (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.

Example Sentences

She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself.

Blessed be God, that, at the font, /⁠ My sponsors bound me to the call / Of Christ in England to confront / The world, the flesh, the fiend and all.

In the Apostolic Age, as in Jewish times (John, iii, 23), baptism was administered without special fonts, at the seaside or in streams or pools of water (Acts, viii, 38); […]

They bought a license for the Gulliver font and installed that font on several machines.

I like the font of this logo.

When figures or quotes are thought helpful to understanding a spot, they're "fonted" over the cover picture.

[…] character generator instead of an easel card to create letters on camera or telephone numbers that can run across the TV screen. The process is called fonting.

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

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• fonts
• fount
• fonting
• fonted

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