See fount on Wiktionary
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"synonyms": [
{
"word": "font"
},
{
"word": "fountain"
},
{
"sense": "device from which animals drink",
"word": "waterer"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "an",
"lang": "Aragonese",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fuent"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izvor",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "извор"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "iztóčnik",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "изто́чник"
},
{
"code": "ext",
"lang": "Extremaduran",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"word": "fuenti"
},
{
"code": "ext",
"lang": "Extremaduran",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"word": "huenti"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "source"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fontaine"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fontaine"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Quelle"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pigí",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "πηγή"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "vrýsi",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "βρύση"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kríni",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "κρήνη"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fonte"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fons"
},
{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "uṟava",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"word": "ഉറവ"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"word": "sours"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "kaynak",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"word": "قایناق"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "çeşme",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"word": "چشمه"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "istóčnik",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "исто́чник"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ključ",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ключ"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "something from which water flows",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fuente"
},
{
"code": "an",
"lang": "Aragonese",
"sense": "metaphorical source",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fuent"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pǎrvoiztočnik",
"sense": "metaphorical source",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "първоизточник"
},
{
"code": "ext",
"lang": "Extremaduran",
"sense": "metaphorical source",
"word": "fuenti"
},
{
"code": "ext",
"lang": "Extremaduran",
"sense": "metaphorical source",
"word": "huenti"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "metaphorical source",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "source"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "metaphorical source",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "origine"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "metaphorical source",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "origine"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "metaphorical source",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Quelle"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "metaphorical source",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Born"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "pigí",
"sense": "metaphorical source",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "πηγή"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "metaphorical source",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fonte"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "metaphorical source",
"word": "sours"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "metaphorical source",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fonte"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "istóčnik",
"sense": "metaphorical source",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "исто́чник"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pervoistóčnik",
"sense": "metaphorical source",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "первоисто́чник"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "metaphorical source",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "fuente"
}
],
"word": "fount"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle French",
"English terms with homophones",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
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"1": "en",
"2": "frm",
"3": "fonte"
},
"expansion": "Middle French fonte",
"name": "der"
}
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "founts",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "fount (plural founts)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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"categories": [
"British English",
"English dated terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Typography"
],
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{
"ref": "1892, Herbert Giles, A Chinese–English Dictionary, Preface:",
"text": "For the small characters it was in fact imperative to use such a fount as was available; not to mention that no strictly accurate fount of Chinese type has as yet been cast.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1933, Dorothy Sayers, chapter 4, in Murder Must Advertise:",
"text": "Mr. Tallboy corrected the misprints, damned their eyes for using the wrong name-block, made it clear to them that they had set the headlines in the wrong fount, cut the proof to pieces, pasted it up again in the correct size, and returned it.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1940 May, G. W. J. Potter, “Tickets of the Great Southern Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 292:",
"text": "The company is to be congratulated on the neatness and businesslike look of the tickets, and also on the very clear and artistic founts of type which are used.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A typographic font."
],
"links": [
[
"typography",
"typography"
],
[
"font",
"font"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(typography, UK, dated) A typographic font."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"dated"
],
"topics": [
"media",
"publishing",
"typography"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/fɒnt/"
},
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},
{
"homophone": "font"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "font"
}
],
"word": "fount"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "founts",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"2": "nouns",
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"g2": "",
"head": "",
"sort": ""
},
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"name": "head"
},
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"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "fount f (plural founts)",
"name": "oc-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Occitan",
"lang_code": "oc",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
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"Occitan entries with incorrect language header",
"Occitan feminine nouns",
"Occitan lemmas",
"Occitan nouns",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
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"spring, fountain"
],
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"spring"
],
[
"fountain",
"fountain"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"word": "fount"
}
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