Definitions for Fount

Fount fount

Spelling: [fount]
IPA: /faʊnt/

Fount is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in Fount (fnotu).

Definitions for Fount

noun

  1. a spring of water; fountain.
  2. a source or origin:
  3. font2 .

Origin of Fount

First recorded in 1585-95; short for fountain

Examples for Fount

It was strange that from the fount of joy sorrow was thrown up.

How are fount, fountain, and spring used in the figurative sense?

The cathedral, a fount of superstition, must find no place in his life.

Uncle Katoma cut a dry spray from a tree, and flung it into the fount.

The sovereign was not only the fount of honour, but of wealth!

The Vatican Bank, a fount of scandal for 40 years, is being investigated for money laundering.

They committed gaucheries, but the fount thereof was kindliness.

They reached me as from some solemn sanctuary, a fount of inspiration.

Republicans treat government as the source of most collective ills, Democrats as the fount of most collective benefits.

That which keeps the world going, the fount of life, is folly.

Word Value for Fount
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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