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.

noun

  1. a jet or spray of water or some other liquid
  2. a structure from which such a jet or a number of such jets spurt, often incorporating figures, basins, etc
  3. a natural spring of water, esp the source of a stream
  4. a stream, jet, or cascade of sparks, lava, etc
  5. a principal source or origin
  6. a reservoir or supply chamber, as for oil in a lamp
  7. short for drinking fountain, soda fountain
n.

early 15c., “spring of water that collects in a pool,” from Old French fontaine “natural spring” (12c.), from Late Latin fontana “fountain, spring” (source of Spanish and Italian fontana), from noun use of fem. of Latin fontanus “of a spring,” from fons (genitive fontis) “spring (of water);” cognate with Sanskrit dhanvati “flows, runs.”

The extended sense of “artificial jet of water” (and the structures that make them) is first recorded c.1500. “A French fountain-pen is described in 1658 and Miss Burney used one in 1789″ [Weekley].

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