fountain
See also: Fountain
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English; from Old French fontaine (=modern); from Late Latin fontana, from Latin fontanus, fontaneus, adjectives from fons (“spring, source”)
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfaʊn.tn̩/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfaʊn.tn̩/[1], /faʊn.tɪn/, [ˈfãʊ̯̃(n)ʔn̩], [ˈfæ̃ʊ̯̃(n)ʔn̩]
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NounEdit
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.
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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.
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Derived termsEdit
terms derived from fountain (noun)
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TranslationsEdit
spring — see spring
artificial water feature
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structure from which a fountain issues
source, origin of a flow
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VerbEdit
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.
TranslationsEdit
to flow or gush as if from a fountain
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