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Noun
Become your own source, your own resource, the fount of your own balance and stability.—Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026 Iger proved to be a fount of knowledge about the company’s founder.—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025 Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, House of the Dragon, and The Pitthave all featured grueling and gory depictions of what those series frame as women’s work, punctuated with founts of blood and soundtracked by screams.—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025 The South Bronx was also a fount of artistic fecundity, where poets, musicians, artists, and dancers created hip-hop.—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fount
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Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English, from Anglo-French funte, founte, from Latin font-, fons