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fount

/fount/US // faʊnt //UK // (faʊnt) //

泉源,泉眼,泉州,泉涌

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a spring of water; fountain.
    • : a source or origin: a fount of inspiration to his congregation.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The Senate in recent years has been known more as a legislative bottleneck than a fount of achievement.

  • The Vatican Bank, a fount of scandal for 40 years, is being investigated for money laundering.

  • My sister was my subject and a brutally unending fount of feeling.

  • Republicans treat government as the source of most collective ills, Democrats as the fount of most collective benefits.

  • O for a soda-fount spouting up boldlyFrom every hot lamp-post against the hot sky!

  • Now armed mobs fought around the temple each day and a new band of priests guarded the sacred fount.

  • But the fount of inspiration, the source of temporary elation and strength, had not been exhausted by Prometheus.

  • He opened the fount of Castalia, hidden by wild branches, and cleared the grove of laurels of thorns.

  • Mayo had been a man of the open—of wide horizons, drinking from the fount of all the air under the heavens.