fountain
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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”)
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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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terms derived from fountain (noun)
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spring — see spring
artificial water feature
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structure from which a fountain issues
source, origin of a flow
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[edit] Verb
fountain (third-person singular simple present fountains, present participle fountaining, simple past and past participle fountained)
