fount
1a spring of water; fountain.
a source or origin: a fount of inspiration to his congregation.
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If Mottley is the decisive leader, Persaud is the fount of possible solutions, churning out or delving into economic innovations he thinks might save the world.
Barbados Resists Climate Colonialism in an Effort to Survive the Costs of Global Warming | by Abrahm Lustgarten | July 27, 2022 | ProPublicaThe original creators, as wonderful as they were, we didn’t have that fount of information.
How Tony Kushner and His Collaborators Brought West Side Story Into the 21st Century | Andrew R. Chow | December 9, 2021 | TimeThe Senate in recent years has been known more as a legislative bottleneck than a fount of achievement.
The Great Kibitzer: How Chuck Schumer Got the Senate Moving Again | Molly Ball | September 2, 2021 | TimeThe Vatican Bank, a fount of scandal for 40 years, is being investigated for money laundering.
My sister was my subject and a brutally unending fount of feeling.
Without Her Twin: Christa Parravani’s Debut Memoir | Anthony Swofford | March 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Republicans treat government as the source of most collective ills, Democrats as the fount of most collective benefits.
Paul Krugman’s Dismissal of Structural Causes for U.S. Employment Problem Is Misguided | Zachary Karabell | May 14, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTO for a soda-fount spouting up boldlyFrom every hot lamp-post against the hot sky!
The Book of Humorous Verse | VariousNow armed mobs fought around the temple each day and a new band of priests guarded the sacred fount.
The Repairman | Harry HarrisonBut the fount of inspiration, the source of temporary elation and strength, had not been exhausted by Prometheus.
The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) | Florence A. Thomas MarshallHe opened the fount of Castalia, hidden by wild branches, and cleared the grove of laurels of thorns.
Giovanni Boccaccio, a Biographical Study | Edward HuttonMayo had been a man of the open—of wide horizons, drinking from the fount of all the air under the heavens.
Blow The Man Down | Holman Day
British Dictionary definitions for fount (1 of 2)
/ (faʊnt) /
poetic a spring or fountain
source or origin
Origin of fount
1British Dictionary definitions for fount (2 of 2)
/ (faʊnt, fɒnt) /
printing another word for font 2
Origin of fount
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