Meaning of fountain | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A natural source of water; a spring.
2. A placename:
   countable, uncountable
3. A ghost town in Mendocino County, California, United States.
   countable, uncountable
4. 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.
5. A city in El Paso County, Colorado, United States, named after Fountain Creek (Arkansas River tributary).
   countable, uncountable
6. The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
7. An unincorporated community in Bay County, Florida, United States.
   countable, uncountable
8. A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
9. An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Illinois, United States.
   countable, uncountable
10. A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
    figuratively
11. A city in Fountain County, Indiana, United States, USA formerly known as Portland.
    countable, uncountable
12. A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
13. A village in Mason County, Michigan, United States.
    countable, uncountable
14. A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
15. A city in Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States.
    countable, uncountable
16. A soda fountain.
    US
17. A town in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States.
    countable, uncountable
18. A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.
    US
19. An unincorporated community in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States.
    countable, uncountable
20. A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
21. A town in Juneau County, Wisconsin, United States.
    countable, uncountable
22. Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.
    figuratively
23. A topographic surname.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“A little fountaine became a riuer, and there was light, & the Sunne, and much water: this riuer is Eſther, whō the King married and made Queene.”

“His house is right beside that fountain on Street 15.”

“As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.”

“They heard her rouse the sleeping servant, and with her enter the kitchen; then the noise of a fire being lighted and the fountain being filled came to the watchers.”

“Nothing will pleaſe ſome Men, but Books ſtuff’d with Antiquity, groaning under the weight of Learned Quotations drawn from the Fountains: And what is all this but Pilfering.”

“My lighter moods are like to these, ⁠That out of words a comfort win; ⁠But there are other griefs within, And tears that at their fountain freeze; […]”

“Crest : A boar's head couped gold semy of fountains armed gules. Motto : REMIS VELISQUE. Granted by the College of Arms 1966.”

“Argent, seme of fountains on a chief azure a Lorraine cross and an oak leaf of the first. Crest, None. Motto, Able and Ready. The blue of the shield represents Infantry. The fountains are emblematic of Arizona,[…]”

“He takes out a soup bowl, fills it with Pepsi from the fountain, and places it carefully on the counter in front of the boy. “That'll be a quarter,” he says professionally.”

“A Sproke was a soft drink Gloria and I had created with Jimbo’s help at the Banana Shack. It was basically fountain Coke mixed with fountain Sprite.”

“Travellers over the London & North Western main line in bygone days will need no reminder of the pattering of cinders on the carriage roofs, the fountains of sparks from the chimneys at night and the distance from which the exhaust of approaching locomotives could be heard, due to the fierceness of their blast in such conditions.”

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