Fountain

Quick meaning: Fountain is a noun meaning (originally) A natural source of water; a spring.

Meaning

(originally) A natural source of water; a spring.

More Meanings

1. The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
2. A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
3. (figurative) A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
4. (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
5. (juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
6. (US) A soda fountain.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

His house is right beside that fountain on Street 15.

Crest : A boar's head couped gold semy of fountains armed gules. Motto : REMIS VELISQUE. Granted by the College of Arms 1966.

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 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.

Word Forms

• fountains
• fountaining
• fountained

Synonyms for fountain

Depending on context, synonyms include fount, syke, wellspring, spring, outpouring, outflow.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fount, outpouring, outflow, spring, jet, wellspring.

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