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Webster 1913 Edition
Font
Font
,Noun.
(Print.)
A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.
Font
,Noun.
[AS.
font
, fant
, fr. L. fons
, fontis
, spring, fountain; cf. OF. font
, funt
, F. fonts
, fonts baptismaux
, pl. See Fount
.] 1.
A fountain; a spring; a source.
Bathing forever in the
font
of bliss. Young.
2.
A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.
That name was given me at the
font
. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Font
FONT
,Noun.
A large basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing children or other persons in the church.
FONT
,Noun.
A complete assortment of printing types of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that letter.
Definition 2024
font
font
See also: fönt
English
Noun
font (plural fonts)
- A receptacle in a church for holy water - especially one used in baptism
- A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
- (figuratively) spring, source, fountain
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
- The Bible lays special stress on the fear of God as the font of wisdom.
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
Translations
a receptacle in church for holy water
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Etymology 2
From Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).
Alternative forms
- fount (UK)
Noun
font (plural fonts)
- (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.
- 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.
- (computing) 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.
Derived terms
Derived terms
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Translations
typesetting: a grouping of consistently-designed glyphs
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a computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs
References
- “font” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Bringhurst, Robert (2002). The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.5, pp 291–2. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. ISBN 0-88179-133-4.
Etymology 3
Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).
Noun
font (plural fonts)
- (figuratively) 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
- A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
- 1910 — Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, part II
- As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.
- 1915 — Woodrow Wilson, Third State of the Union Address
- I am interested to fix your attention on this prospect now because unless you take it within your view and permit the full significance of it to command your thought I cannot find the right light in which to set forth the particular matter that lies at the very font of my whole thought as I address you to-day.
- 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V
Translations
a source
Catalan
Etymology
Noun
font m (plural fonts)
Synonyms
(fountain): fontana
Derived terms
Related terms
- fontaner
- fontaneria
- fontinyol
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɔ̃/
- Rhymes: -ɔ̃
Verb
font
- third-person plural present indicative of faire
Friulian
Alternative forms
- fonz
Etymology
Noun
font m (plural fonts)
- bottom
- background
- landed property, farm
- fund
Related terms
Hungarian
Etymology
From German Pfund, from Latin pondo.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfont]
- Hyphenation: font
Noun
font (plural fontok)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | font | fontok |
| accusative | fontot | fontokat |
| dative | fontnak | fontoknak |
| instrumental | fonttal | fontokkal |
| causal-final | fontért | fontokért |
| translative | fonttá | fontokká |
| terminative | fontig | fontokig |
| essive-formal | fontként | fontokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | fontban | fontokban |
| superessive | fonton | fontokon |
| adessive | fontnál | fontoknál |
| illative | fontba | fontokba |
| sublative | fontra | fontokra |
| allative | fonthoz | fontokhoz |
| elative | fontból | fontokból |
| delative | fontról | fontokról |
| ablative | fonttól | fontoktól |
| Possessive forms of font | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | fontom | fontjaim |
| 2nd person sing. | fontod | fontjaid |
| 3rd person sing. | fontja | fontjai |
| 1st person plural | fontunk | fontjaink |
| 2nd person plural | fontotok | fontjaitok |
| 3rd person plural | fontjuk | fontjaik |
Synonyms
- (currency): font sterling
References
- ↑ Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, ISBN 963 7094 20 2
Swedish
Noun
font c
- (typography) a font
Declension
| Inflection of font | ||||
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| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | font | fonten | fonter | fonterna |
| Genitive | fonts | fontens | fonters | fonternas |
Usage notes
- The synonym teckensnitt is considered more correct.