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Webster 1913 Edition
Fountain
1.
A spring of water issuing from the earth.
2.
An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament.
3.
A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use;
as, the ink
fountain
in a printing press, etc.4.
The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source.
Judea, the
fountain
of the gospel. Fuller.
Author of all being,
Fountain
of light, thyself invisible. Milton.
Air fountain
. See under
– Air
. Fountain heead
, primary source; original; first principle.
Young.
– Fountain inkstand
, an inkstand having a continual supply of ink, as from elevated reservoir.
– Fountain lamp
, a lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir.
– Fountain pen
, a pen with a reservoir in the handle which furnishes a supply of ink.
– Fountain pump
. (a)
A structure for a fountain, having the form of a pump.
(b)
A portable garden pump which throws a jet, for watering plants, etc.
– Fountain shell
(Zool.)
, the large West Indian conch shell (
– Strombus gigas
). Fountain of youth
, a mythical fountain whose waters were fabled to have the property of renewing youth.
Definition 2024
Fountain
Fountain
See also: fountain
English
Proper noun
Fountain
- A ghost town in California.
- A city in Colorado.
- A village in Michigan.
- A town in Minnesota.
- A town in North Carolina.
- A town in Wisconsin.
fountain
fountain
See also: Fountain
English
A fountain in Stockholm, Sweden.
Noun
fountain (plural fountains)
- (originally) A spring, natural source of water.
- 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.
- The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
- 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.
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- A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
- A source, origin of a flow (e.g. of favors, of knowledge).
- A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that thows it.
- (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
- (US) A soda fountain.
Synonyms
Derived terms
terms derived from fountain (noun)
Related terms
Translations
spring — see spring
artificial water feature
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structure from which a fountain issues
source, origin of a flow
Verb
fountain (third-person singular simple present fountains, present participle fountaining, simple past and past participle fountained)
- (intransitive) To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
- Lava fountained from the volcano.
- Tom Reamy, Blind Voices
- The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.
Translations
to flow or gush as if from a fountain
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