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- Dictionaryfount/fɒnt/
noun
- 1. a source of a desirable quality or commodity: "our courier was a fount of knowledge"
- 2. a spring or fountain. literary
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FOUNT definition: 1. the person or place from which all information on a particular subject comes: 2. a set of…. Learn more.
Noun. His Administration, like those of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, was a fount of special favors for powerful industries and a trasher of regulations that cost corporations money; and its first and biggest achievement was an enormous tax-cut bill tilted in favor of the rich.
If you describe a person or thing as the fount of something, you are saying that they are an important source or supply of it. [ literary ] To the young boy his father was the fount of all knowledge.
FOUNT meaning: 1. the person or place from which all information on a particular subject comes: 2. a set of…. Learn more.
Fount definition: a spring of water; fountain. . See examples of FOUNT used in a sentence.
Define fount. fount synonyms, fount pronunciation, fount translation, English dictionary definition of fount. n. 1. A fountain. 2. One that initiates or dispenses; a source: Damascus—the fount of modern Arab nationalism. n. Chiefly British Variant of font2.
fount (of something) the place where something important comes from synonym source. She treats him as if he were the fount of all knowledge. I would hardly regard him as a fount/source of all wisdom.
A complete guide to the word "FOUNT": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.
FOUNT meaning: 1 : the source of something; 2 : font.
fount. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English fount /faʊnt/ noun → the fount of all knowledge/wisdom etc Examples from the Corpus fount • The monarch was also entitled, as the fount of Justice, to the profits of his lawcourts.
