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fonts

fonts is the plural of font.

fonts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of font.

Meaning of font

Noun (1)

font (plural fonts)

  1. A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
    • She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself.
    Synonyms:
    stoup
  2. A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.

Noun (2)

font (plural fonts)

  1. In metal typesetting, a set of type sorts in one size.
  2. In phototypesetting, a set of patterns forming glyphs of any size, or the film they are stored on.
  3. 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.
  4. (informal) A typeface.

See all 12 meanings of font

Proper noun capitalized: Fonts

Fonts

  1. (plural) plural of Font

Phrases with fonts

Questions about fonts

What is fonts the plural of?
Fonts is the plural of font.
What part of speech is fonts?
Fonts is a proper noun.

Words near fonts in the dictionary

  1. fontology
  2. fontomfrom
  3. fontomfroms
  4. fontonfrom
  5. fontonfroms
  6. fonts
  7. fonts of all wisdom
  8. Fonua
  9. Fonuas
  10. Fonville
  11. Fonzi

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fonts (page history and authors); Fonts (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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