• IPA: /ˈfaʊn.tn̩/
  • (America) IPA: [ˈfaʊn.ʔn̩]

fountain (plural fountains)

1. (originally) A natural#Adjective|natural source#Noun|source of water#Noun|water; a spring#Noun|spring.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Esther 10:6 ↗:

     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.

2. An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature#Noun|feature (usually in a garden#Noun|garden or public place) consisting of one or more stream#Noun|streams of water originating from a statue or other structure#Noun|structure.
3. The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue#Verb|issue.
4. A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
5. A source or origin of a flow#Noun|flow (e.g., of favor#Noun|favors or knowledge).
6. (heraldiccharge) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
7. (juggling) A juggling pattern#Noun|pattern typically done with an even#Adjective|even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand#Noun|hand that throw#Verb|throws it.
8. (US) A soda fountain.

• fount
• wellspring
• (heraldry) syke

• font

• French: fontaine
• German: Springbrunnen，Fontäne
• Italian: fontana
• Portuguese: fonte, chafariz
• Russian: фонта́н
• Spanish: fuente

• French: fontaine
• Portuguese: fonte, chafariz
• Russian: фонта́н

• Portuguese: fonte
• Russian: исто́чник

fountain (fountains, present participle fountaining; past and past participle fountained)

1. (intransitive) To flow or gush as if from a fountain.

   Lava fountained from the volcano.

   • , Blind Voices:

     The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.

1. A ghost town in California.
2. A city in Colorado.
3. A city in Fountain County, Indiana, USA formerly known as Portland.
4. A village in Michigan.
5. A town in Minnesota.
6. A town in North Carolina.
7. A town in Wisconsin.