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A plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water
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fountain
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "spring of water that collects in a pool," from Old French fontaine "natural spring" (12c.), from Medieval Latin fontana "fountain, a spring" (source of Spanish and Italian fontana ), from post-classical noun use of fem. of Latin fontanus "of ...
Wikipedia
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A fountain is a source of water. Fountain may also refer to: Fountain (heraldry) , a roundel with wavy blue and white stripes in heraldry Fountain of Youth , legendary spring that reputedly restores youth, a symbol of The Fountain as the absolute principle ...
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 343 Housing Units (2000): 137 Land area (2000): 0.829750 sq. miles (2.149042 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.829750 sq. miles (2.149042 sq. km) FIPS code: 22094 Located within: Minnesota ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises a natural flow of ground water [syn: spring , outflow , outpouring , natural spring ] an artificially produced flow of water [syn: jet ] a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES drinking fountain fountain pen soda fountain water fountain COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE ornamental ▪ If a more decorative fountain is required, an ornamental fountain, such as this dolphin one, can be installed. ...
Usage examples of fountain.
Clodius Afer gruffly ordered the accompanying legionaries, but he himself angled toward the fountain.
The fountain erupted from the agate pool and splashed Lelila from the top of her head to the ends of her hair.
For a few minutes he walked around under the ahuehuete trees, enjoying the fountains and early-evening air before catching another cab and telling the driver to take him not to the Normandia, but to the Cadillac Grill.
Leaving Alec on guard, Seregil and Micum went back to the fountain for a whispered conference.
He headed for the fountain to wait for his grandson, treading like a snow leopard across the Himalayas, knowing a mate must be somewhere up there among the alpenglow and mist.
Thus the water is forced to the surface with considerable energy, and the well is often named artesian, though it flows by gas pressure on the principle of the soda-water fountain, and not by gravity, as in the case of true artesian wells.
I then went towards the fountain, but the reader will be astonished by a meeting of the most romantic character, but which is yet the strict truth.
His helmet was of old rusty iron, but the vizor was brass, which, tainted by his breath, corrupted into copperas, nor wanted gall from the same fountain, so that, whenever provoked by anger or labour, an atramentous quality, of most malignant nature, was seen to distil from his lips.
Landry and the psychosocial counselor strolled into the flagged courtyard of the auberge, down an open passage, and into an office that looked out at the fountain and flowers.
A fine garden, fountains, baths, several well-furnished rooms, a good kitchen--in a word, everything pleased me, and I begged M.
In the inscription round the basin above, among flowery phrases belauding the fountain, and suggesting that the work is so fine that it is difficult to distinguish the water from the alabaster, the spectator is comforted with the assurance that they cannot bite!
And to the intent you may beleeve me I will shew you an example : wee were come nothing nigh to Thebes, where is the fountain of our art and science, but we learned where a rich Chuffe called Chriseros did dwell, who for fear of offices in the publique wel dissembled his estate, and lived sole and solitary in a small coat, howbeit replenished with aboundance of treasure, and went daily in ragged and torn apparel.
Caligula thing with marble walls and spurting fountains when Hank Bindle had decided he was allergic to marble.
Espying the bright fountain near at hand, she hastened thither, and scooped up a portion of its water, in a cup of birchen bark.
Two additional lights began to flash, and hope sprang into his heart as he realized that one of them lay behind him, near to the fountain, and another was not twenty ells beyond the bosquet, across the cordoned-off boulevard that skirted the pleasance.