fount

Plural: founts

Noun

• A fountain or spring; a source.
• a specific size and style of type within a type family
• a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water
• Synonym of fountain (“a natural source of water”); a spring.
• A device from which poultry may drink; a waterer.
• That from which something proceeds; an origin, a source.
• Synonym of font (“a set of glyphs of unified design, usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters belonging to one typeface, style, and weight; a typeface; a family of typefaces”).

Examples

• He is a real fount of knowledge!
• That one ’fount’ of letters on the board yielded multiple high-scoring plays.

Synonyms

case, face, font, fountain, typeface