fountain

Meanings

Noun

• A natural source of water; a spring.
• 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 can issue.
• A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
• A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
• A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
• A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
• A soda fountain.
• A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.
• A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
• Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.

Verb

• To flow or gush as if from a fountain.

Related

Similar words

• fount
• wellspring
• (heraldry) syke

Origin

• From Middle English; from Old French fontaine (whence modern fontaine); from Late Latin fontana, from Latin fontanus, fontaneus, adjectives from fons.