Meaning of font | Babel Free

Definitions

1. # Clipping of Fontainebleau: a town near Paris, in Seine-et-Marne department, Île-de-France, France.
   informal
2. A surname
3. A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
4. A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
5. In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
6. A source, wellspring, fount.
   figuratively
7. A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
8. In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
9. A complete set of type of one size and face.
10. a complete assortment of type of one style and size.
11. In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
12. A basin for holding baptismal water in a church.
13. A typeface.
    informal
14. A receptacle for holy water; a stoup.
15. A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
    metonymically
16. The oil reservoir in an oil-burning lamp.
17. The design of any text.
    informal
18. An abundant source; a fount: She was a font of wisdom and good sense.
19. (Ecclesiastical Terms) a. a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
20. the reservoir for oil in an oil lamp
21. archaic or poetic a fountain or well
    archaic
22. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) printing a complete set of type of one style and size. Also called: fount
    printing

Equivalents

Examples

“She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself.”

“Blessed be God, that, at the font, /⁠ My sponsors bound me to the call / Of Christ in England to confront / The world, the flesh, the fiend and all.”

“In the Apostolic Age, as in Jewish times (John, iii, 23), baptism was administered without special fonts, at the seaside or in streams or pools of water (Acts, viii, 38); […]”

“They bought a license for the Gulliver font and installed that font on several machines.”

“I like the font of this logo.”

“1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in The arts of which these lands were once the font”

“As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.”

“I am interested to fix your attention on this prospect now because unless you take it within your view and permit the full significance of it to command your thought I cannot find the right light in which to set forth the particular matter that lies at the very font of my whole thought as I address you to-day.”

“The Bible lays special stress on the fear of God as the font of wisdom.”

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