Synonyms for fountain
ˈfaʊn tnfoun·tain

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1. fountainnoun

   Synonyms:
   wellspring, fount

2. fountainnoun

   A spring, natural source of water.

   Synonyms:
   wellspring, fount

3. fountainnoun

   An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.

   Synonyms:
   wellspring, fount

4. fountainnoun

   The structure from which an artificial fountain issues

   Synonyms:
   wellspring, fount

5. fountainnoun

   A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.

   Synonyms:
   fount, wellspring

6. fountainnoun

   A source, origin of a flow (e.g. of favors, of knowledge).

   Synonyms:
   wellspring, fount

7. fountainnoun

   A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that thows it.

   Synonyms:
   fount, wellspring

8. fountainnoun

   A soda fountain.

   Synonyms:
   wellspring, fount

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. fountain

   The Latin commencement is more formal than the Saxon beginning, as the verb commence, is more formal than begin. Commencement is for the most part restricted to some form of action, while beginning has no restriction, but may be applied to action, state, material, extent, enumeration, or to whatever else may be conceived of as having a first part, point, degree, etc. The letter A is at the beginning (not the commencement) of every alphabet. If we were to speak of the commencement of the Pacific Railroad, we should be understood to refer to the enterprise and its initiatory act; if we were to refer to the roadway we should say "Here is the beginning of the Pacific Railroad." In the great majority of cases begin and beginning are preferable to commence and commencement as the simple, idiomatic English words, always accurate and expressive. "In the beginning was the word," John i, 1. An origin is the point from which something starts or sets out, often involving, and always suggesting causal connection; as, the origin of evil; the origin of a nation, a government, or a family. A source is that which furnishes a first and continuous supply, that which flows forth freely or may be readily recurred to; as, the source of a river; a source of knowledge; a source of inspiration; fertile land is a source (not an origin) of wealth. A rise is thought of as in an action; we say that a lake is the source of a certain river, or that the river takes its rise from the lake. Motley wrote of "The Rise of the Dutch Republic." Fount, fountain, and spring, in their figurative senses, keep close to their literal meaning. Compare CAUSE.

   See synonyms for END.

   Synonyms:
   arising, beginning, commencement, fount, inauguration, inception, initiation, opening, origin, outset, rise, source, spring, start

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1. fountainnoun

   a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises

   Synonyms:
   natural spring, outflow, fount, jet, outpouring, spring

2. spring, fountain, outflow, outpouring, natural springnoun

   a natural flow of ground water

   Synonyms:
   leakage, run, leak, escape, onslaught, give, bound, discharge, springiness, springtime, efflux, spring, leap, flood, fount, gush, saltation, bounce, barrage, jet, natural spring, bombardment, overflow, leaping, outpouring, effluence, flush, outflow

3. fountain, jetnoun

   an artificially produced flow of water

   Synonyms:
   blue jet, spirt, reverse lightning, honey oil, jet-propelled plane, jet, spring, super acid, green, super C, special K, fount, natural spring, squirt, outpouring, jet plane, cat valium, outflow, spurt

4. fountain, fountnoun

   a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water

   Synonyms:
   natural spring, case, outpouring, fount, spring, jet, typeface, outflow, face, font

Matched Categories

1. • Flow
   • Geological Formation
   • Plumbing Fixture
   • Structure

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fountainnoun

   Synonyms:
   spring, well, font

2. fountainnoun

   Synonyms:
   jet, JET D'EAU

3. fountainnoun

   Synonyms:
   source, original, origin, cause, first principle, fountain-head

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1. fountainnoun

   Synonyms:
   fount, spring, jet d'eau, source, fountainhead, origin, castalia

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1. List of paraphrases for "fountain":

   fontaine, trout

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1. Andrew Freeman:

   Physical activity is just absolutely magnificent, and when if you blend that with eating a more plant-based diet, de-stressing, sleeping enough and connecting with others -- that's your magic recipe. It's the fountain of youth, if you will.

2. Chrysippus:

   Thought is the fountain of speech.

3. Scott Kelly:

   The telomeres are the things that are in our chromosomes that are indications of our physical age, so as we age, they get shorter – mine got longer in space, so it was a little bit like the fountain of youth – unfortunately when I got back down to Earth they went back down to where they were.

4. Olive Schreiner:

   Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.

5. Roger Bannister:

   This--this was what made life a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice...a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.