- 1泉源、源頭（多指知識、智慧的來源；偏書面）。如 a fount of knowledge＝知識的泉源。電腦字型請寫 font，不是這個意思。
In careful or literary English, a fount is the place, person, or idea that knowledge, wisdom, or some quality seems to flow from. Teachers still say, with a smile or without one, “She is a fount of knowledge.” You can also hear it with a sting: “the fount of all wisdom” — meaning someone who talks as if they know everything. It is not the everyday word for a drinking fountain; fountain does that job. Fount is the short, slightly grand cousin, cut down from fountain the way mount sits beside mountain. Use it for a source that pours out, usually something of the mind: wisdom, ideas, stories, even gossip. Though actually, British printers also used fount for a set of type — what most people now call a font. That is a different history, mixed up with font, and it is not this sense. If you mean the letters on a screen, write font. If you mean “where the knowledge comes from,” fount is the old fountain, cut down.
組成A shortened fountain, on the same pattern as mount beside mountain. (A separate printing word fount is a variant of font — not this sense.)
同家族的字
- fountainfount is fountain cut down
- fountainheadsame “source that water — and then ideas — flow from” picture
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fountnoun詞源 1/faʊnt/
- 1
archaicSynonym of fountain (“a natural source of water”); a spring.
- VVhy ſhould the vvorme intrude the maiden bud? / Or hatefull Kuckcovves [cuckoos] hatch in Sparrovvs neſts? / Or Todes infect faire founts vvith venome mud? / […] / But no perfection is ſo abſolute, / That ſome impuritie doth not pollute.
- [T]his top-proud fellovv, / […] / From ſincere motions, by Intelligence, / And proofes as cleere as Founts in Iuly, vvhen / VVee ſee each graine of grauell; I doe knovv / To be corrupt and treaſonous.
- 2
archaicagriculturebusinesslifestyleA device from which poultry may drink; a waterer.
- A. H. Hews & Co., North Cambridge, Mass. Manufacturers of Poultry Water Founts. Capacities one quart, two quarts, three quarts, and four quarts. For sale, wholesale and retail.
- On north side an alley six feet wide whole length of building, partitioned as follows: 1st, Feed troughs and water founts; above these, at proper height, two tiers of nest boxes, one above the other— […]
- 3
That from which something proceeds; an origin, a source.
- He is a real fount of knowledge!
- This was the ſad beginning of our woes / that was from hell on wretched mortalls hurld / & from this fount did all thoſe miſchiefes flow / whoſe inundation drowneth all the world.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。