Word.ws English Dictionary

Fontan

Fontan proper noun: a commune of Alpes-Maritimes department, France.

Proper noun (1)

Fontan

  1. A commune of Alpes-Maritimes department, France.

Noun

Fontan (plural Fontans)

  1. A Fontan procedure.
    • In preparation for our first meeting after months of cyber-contact, I send Dr. Chin Damon's complete medical records. But he keeps asking for more: echo reports, Holters (heart monitoring data), growth curves, and all protein and albumin readings since his Fontan.2013, Doron Weber, Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 90

Proper noun (2)

Fontan (plural Fontans)

  1. A surname from Spanish.

Forms of Fontan

Noun
pluralFontans
Proper noun
pluralFontans

Origin of Fontan

Borrowed from Spanish Fontán.

Phrases with Fontan

Questions about Fontan

What does Fontan mean?
Fontan means a commune of Alpes-Maritimes department, France.
What part of speech is Fontan?
Fontan can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Fontan in the dictionary

  1. Fontaine
  2. Fontainebleau
  3. Fontaines
  4. fontal
  5. fontally
  6. Fontan
  7. Fontan procedure
  8. Fontan procedures
  9. Fontana
  10. Fontanas
  11. fontanel

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Fontan (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Fontan.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fontan. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.