font
/fɒnt/US/fɑnt/
font noun: a receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
Noun (1)
font (plural fonts)
- A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
- She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself.
- Blessed be God, that, at the font, / My sponsors bound me to the call / Of Christ in England to confront / The world, the flesh, the fiend and all.1791, Christopher Smart, “Moderation”, in Hymns for the Amusement of Children
- Synonyms:
- stoup
- A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
Noun (2)
font (plural fonts)
- In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
- In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
- 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.
- A typeface.
- 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.
- They bought a license for the Gulliver font and installed that font on several machines.
- The design of any text.
- I like the font of this logo.
- Synonyms:
- lettering
Verb
font (third-person singular simple present fonts, present participle fonting, simple past and past participle fonted)
- To overlay (text) on the picture.
- When figures or quotes are thought helpful to understanding a spot, they're "fonted" over the cover picture.1981, William Safire, On language, page 78
- […] character generator instead of an easel card to create letters on camera or telephone numbers that can run across the TV screen. The process is called fonting.1987, The Foundation Center, Promoting issues & ideas: a guide to public relations for nonprofit organizations, page 97
Noun (3)
font (plural fonts)
- A source, wellspring, fount.
- 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V
A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in
The arts of which these lands were once the font - As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this...1910, Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, part II
- 1824 — George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto V
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Font
Font
- # Clipping of Fontainebleau: a town near Paris, in Seine-et-Marne department, Île-de-France, France.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Font
Font (plural Fonts)
- A surname
font meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
font in Hindi
- typesetting: a grouping of consistently-designed glyphs
- फ़ॉन्ट fŏnṭ
font in Tamil
- typesetting: a grouping of consistently-designed glyphs
- எழுத்துரு eḻutturu
font in Marathi
- typesetting: a grouping of consistently-designed glyphs
- फाँट phŏṇṭa
- computer file used to draw glyphs
- फाँट phŏṇṭa
font in Urdu
- typesetting: a grouping of consistently-designed glyphs
- فونْٹ fonṭ
More languagesFewer languages
- font in Bengali
- ফন্ট phonṭo
- font in Telugu
- అక్షరాకృతి akṣarākr̥ti
- font in Malayalam
- ഫോണ്ട്, ഫോണ്ടിലേക്ക്, അക്ഷരശൈലിയിലേക്ക്
- font in Kannada
- ಬರಿಗೆಯಾಕಾರ, ಅಕ್ಷರಾಕಾರ, ಬರಿಗೆ ಶೈಲಿ, ಬರಿಗೆ ಗಾತ್ರ
- font in Punjabi
- ਫੌਂਟ, ਫੋਂਟ, ਫੋੰਟ
- font in Gujarati
- ફોન્ટ, ફૉન્ટ, ફોન્ટ કરવા માટે
- font in Odia
- ଫଣ୍ଟ, ଅକ୍ଷରଶୈଳୀକୁ
- font in Sanskrit
- मुख múkha
- font in Nepali
- फन्ट, फोन्ट, फन्ट गर्न
- font in Arabic
- خَطّ ḵaṭṭ, بُنْط bunṭ
- font in Malay
- fon, pasuan
- font in Indonesian
- fon
- font in Thai
- ฟอนต์ fɔ́n
- font in Vietnamese
- bình đựng nước thánh, chậu nước thánh, phông, phông chữ
- font in Myanmar
- ဖောင့် hpaung., စာလုံးပုံစံ calum:pumcam
Examples of font in a sentence
- In the Apostolic Age, as in Jewish times (John, iii, 23), baptism was administered without special fonts, at the seaside or in streams or pools of water (Acts, viii, 38); […]1913, John Bertram Peterson, “Baptismal Font”, in Catholic Encyclopedia, volume 2:
- The Bible lays special stress on the fear of God as the font of wisdom.1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
Synonyms of font
Forms of font
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fonts |
| alternative form (archaic) | fount |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | fonts |
| present participle | fonting |
| past participle | fonted |
| past | fonted |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Fonts |
Origin of font
From Old English font, an early borrowing from Latin fōns, fontis (“fountain”).
From Middle French fonte (“act or process of founding or melting; act of producing items from molten metal; cast iron; set of type”) (modern French fonte), either: * from fondre (“to melt, melt down; to smelt”), from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere, the present active infinitive of fundō (“to pour out; to make by smelting, found”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”); or * from Late Latin *fundita, a noun use of funditus, a perfect passive participle form of Latin fundō (see above; the classical Latin form is fūsus).
Apparently from fount, with influence from the senses above (under etymology 1).
Words formed from font
- font of all wisdom
- fontal
- fontlet
- fontless
- font name
- bitmap font
- clip font
- color font
- Fontcest
- font family
- fontography
- fontology
- font stack
- font suitcase
- multifont
- outline font
- pi font
- printer font
- roman font
- screen font
- soundfont
- subfont
- Unicode font
- variable font
- webfont
Phrases with font
Words that rhyme with font
Questions about font
- What does font mean?
- Font means a receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
- What is font in Hindi?
- Font in Hindi is फ़ॉन्ट (fŏnṭ). See Font meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use font in a sentence?
- In the Apostolic Age, as in Jewish times (John, iii, 23), baptism was administered without special fonts, at the seaside or in streams or pools of water (Acts, viii, 38); […]
- What part of speech is font?
- Font can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce font?
- Font is pronounced /fɒnt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of font?
- The plural of font is fonts.
Words near font in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: font (page history and authors); Font (page history and authors); font (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); font (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); font (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); font (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); font (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); मुख (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); font (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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