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fonted

fonted is the simple past and past participle of font.

Meaning of font

Verb

font (third-person singular simple present fonts, present participle fonting, simple past and past participle fonted)

  1. (informal, transitive) 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

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Adjective

fonted (not comparable)

  1. (in-compounds) In a particular typographical font.
    • It was expensive and the gothic/oriental fonted menu, the random buffet was truly bizarre – coleslaw, potato salad, egg rolls, spicy chicken, kiwi mussels in black bean sauce.2008, Rebecca Rosenblum, Once, page 200

Questions about fonted

What does fonted mean?
Fonted means in a particular typographical font.
What is fonted the simple past and past participle of?
Fonted is the simple past and past participle of font.
What part of speech is fonted?
Fonted is an adjective.

Words near fonted in the dictionary

  1. Fontanillas
  2. fontanite
  3. Fontans
  4. Fontcest
  5. Fonte
  6. fonted
  7. Fontenay-aux-Roses
  8. Fontenay-le-Fleury
  9. Fontenay-sous-Bois
  10. Fontenette
  11. Fontenettes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fonted (page history and authors); font (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.

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