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fonte — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • font noun A set of letters and characters sharing one consistent design, style, and weight, used in printing or on a screen.
  • fount noun Synonym of fountain (“a natural source of water”); a spring.
  • fountain noun A structure that shoots or sprays water, often as a decoration in a public space.
  • source noun The place, person, or thing that something originates from.
  • spring noun The season between winter and summer, when plants begin to grow again.
  • well adv In a good, skillful, or satisfactory way.

Senses

fonte is used for these senses in English:

  • font (Christianity) A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
  • font In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.
  • font (computing, typography, metonymically) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
  • fount (figurative) That from which something proceeds; an origin, a source. [from early 17th c.]
  • fountain A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
  • headwaters The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
  • source The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
  • source A reporter's informant.

font — full definition

  1. noun A set of letters and characters sharing one consistent design, style, and weight, used in printing or on a screen.
  2. noun A basin in a church that holds water used for baptism.
  3. noun A source or origin of something, especially knowledge (literary).

fount — full definition

  1. noun Synonym of fountain (“a natural source of water”); a spring.
  2. noun A device from which poultry may drink; a waterer.
  3. noun That from which something proceeds; an origin, a source.

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