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From Middle English; from Old French fontaine (=modern); from Late Latin fontana, from Latin fontanus, fontaneus, adjectives from fons (“‘spring, source’”)
Pronunciation
Noun
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Singular fountain |
Plural fountains |
fountain (plural fountains)
- (originally) A spring, natural source of water.
- An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
- The structure from which an artificial fountain issues
- A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
- A source, origin of a flow (e.g. of favors, of knowledge).
- A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that thows it.
- (US) A soda fountain.
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Verb
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Infinitive to fountain |
Third person singular fountains |
Simple past fountained |
Past participle fountained |
Present participle fountaining |
to fountain (third-person singular simple present fountains, present participle fountaining, simple past and past participle fountained)
Translations
to flow or gush as if from a fountain
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