fount
noun
us
/faʊnt/ uk
/faʊnt/fount noun (LETTERS)
UK
Meaning of fount in English
(Definition of fount from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of fount
fount
He was also enigmatic, eccentric, brilliant, and possessed of a fount of indignation at the wrongs of the world as he understood them.
From NPR
Our office is an open space in the fount of the building -- it might be dusty, but we do work with some old stuff!
From National Geographic
Now it's a fount of disputation and bitterness.
From New York Post
We do not expect the state and the law to be a fount from which flows all wisdom.
From Huffington Post
All this leads to a big, final flourish that's meant to suggest the victory of the naturalistic world over mankind's planet-despoiling pursuit of new and better founts of energy.
From Chicago Tribune
The endurance athlete knows the exquisite feeling of pushing oneself to the very edge, only to discover a fount of strength and spirit within themselves to push further.
From Huffington Post
Poke a stick into it, and you will get a gushing fount of commentary on the same subjects as now, in the same angry and despairing tone.
From The Atlantic
Sufism, in contrast, possesses an independent fount of authority in its experiential dimension and in the charismatic figure of the shaykh.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Importantly, the arguments for mandatory, parent-funded insurance schemes still rely on the same fount of argument that supports wrongful life liability without pooled risk.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Two such cages which constituted one experimental unit (pen) had a common water fount and feeder.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
They were regarded simultaneously as the potential founts of hygienic knowledge and as the perpetrators of medical ignorance.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
It is quite possible to detect the source of it, and not difficult to draw the same results from the same fount.
From Project Gutenberg
Look within thee--behold both the fount and the flow!
From Project Gutenberg
But are we to lug our baptismal fount around in the woods?
From Project Gutenberg
The fount is made of brass, heavily nickel plated, and will hold enough oil for eight hours' burning.
From Project Gutenberg
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