Synonyms of fountains

fountains 1 of 2

noun

plural of fountain

as in sources

a point or place at which something is invented or provided

regards the Bible as the fountain of all truth concerning the Divinity

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sources
• cradles
• wells
• springs
• fonts
• fountainheads
• origins
• wellsprings
• roots
• commencements
• beginnings
• seedbeds
• thresholds
• starts
• geneses
• kickoffs
• inceptions
• launches
• incipiencies
• day ones
• baselines
• outsets
• dawns
• nascencies
• mornings
• onsets
• incipiences
• nascences
• first bases
• ground zeros
• get-goes
• square ones

fountains

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of fountain

as in spouts

Related Words

• spouts
• gushes
• spurts
• courses
• races
• springs
• overflows
• floods
• rushes
• cascades
• swamps
• streams
• overruns
• drips
• flows
• issues
• ripples
• sheets
• inundates
• deluges
• emanates
• engulfs
• trickles
• arises
• gutters
• dribbles
• effuses
• riffles
• pours
• disembogues
• flushes
• rolls
• washes out
• runs

Dissimilar Words

• backs up
• sets
• gels
• coagulates
• hardens
• clots
• congeals

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fountains

Noun

Its famous holiday lights won’t be on display during the first half of the season, but the fountains and public art still give the district plenty of visual appeal. — Taylor Haught, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2026

And teach kids not to drink from the pool or treat splash-pad spouts like drinking fountains. — Angela Haupt, Time, 20 July 2026

People become infected by breathing in tiny droplets of contaminated water, commonly from sources such as cooling towers, hot tubs or decorative fountains. — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 19 July 2026

Some of the rest were stuck in water-bottle refill lines, concurrent queues snaking behind small drinking fountains that created a bottleneck of sweaty humanity around the corners of the new stadium. — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 18 July 2026

Studies show that cooling towers and other warm, wet environments like hot tubs, spas, fountains and some plumbing systems are particularly vulnerable to Legionella bacteria. — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 17 July 2026

Imagine one over Italy’s Mount Etna during a strombolian eruption or in Hawaii with Kilauea’s fountains in the foreground. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 July 2026

In London, families can cool off in the courtyard fountains of Somerset House or at Granary Square in Kings Cross. — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2026

The president has worked with the Interior Department and one of its agencies, the National Park Service, to restart dormant park fountains. — Darlene Superville, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026