Definitions for fountain

fountain foun·tain

Spelling: [foun-tn]
IPA: /ˈfaʊn tn/

Fountain is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 181 anagrams from letters in fountain (afinnotu).

Definitions for fountain

noun

  1. a spring or source of water; the source or head of a stream.
  2. the source or origin of anything.
  3. a jet or stream of water (or other liquid) made by mechanical means to spout or rise from an opening or structure, as to afford water for use, to cool the air, or to serve for ornament.
  4. a structure for discharging such a jet or a number of jets, often an elaborate or artistic work with basins, sculptures, etc.
  5. drinking fountain.
  6. soda fountain.
  7. a reservoir for a liquid to be supplied gradually or continuously, as in a fountain pen.
  8. Heraldry. a roundel barry-wavy, argent and azure.

Origin of fountain

1375-1425; late Middle English fontayne Old French fontaine Late Latin fontāna, noun use of feminine of Latin fontānus of a spring, equivalent to font- (stem of fons) spring + -ānus Examples for fountain

Perhaps the sweet drip of the fountain cooled his hot thoughts.

Depending on who you ask, cardio exercise is either the fountain of youth or the ticket to an early grave.

A few of those community leaders invited Scopes to the drugstore, bought him a fountain drink, and convinced him to stand trial.

Terry Chung, an expert on fluidics and fountain systems, led the engineering of the mechanical systems.

Only the fountain and the shadows and the artist's brush moved there.

The fountain was one long fight, The Wrestler was divorce, and then we reconciled on Black Swan.

Then he moved from the fountain in the direction of the Strand.

They pay for the farm of this fountain about fifty crowns per annum.

He wandered into fountain City, a suburb of Knoxville, where he fended for himself.

And why they came toward the fountain at all is a mystery; for they had no business there.

Word Value for fountain
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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