Noun: font
Sample Sentences
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She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself.
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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. [1791, Christopher Smart, “Moderation”, in Hymns for the Amusement of Children:]
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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); […] [1913, John Bertram Peterson, “Baptismal Font”, in Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 2:]
Nouns inflected like font
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fōns, fontis (“fountain”). See: Latin Nouns '
fons'.
Verbs referencing "font"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
font, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
font, Polish Nouns
font, Romanian Nouns
font, Finnish Nouns
fontti, Swedish Nouns
dopfunt, German Nouns
Font.