'Font' definitions:
Definition of 'font'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
Definition of 'Font'
From: GCIDE
- Font \Font\, n. [F. fonte, fr. fondre to melt or cast. See Found to cast, and cf. Fount a font.] (Print.) A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Font'
From: GCIDE
- Font \Font\, n. [AS. font, fant, fr. L. fons, fontis, spring, fountain; cf. OF. font, funt, F. fonts, fonts baptismaux, pl. See Fount.]
- 1. A fountain; a spring; a source. [1913 Webster]
- Bathing forever in the font of bliss. --Young. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing. [1913 Webster]
- That name was given me at the font. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'font'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affusion,
- ascender,
- aspergation,
- aspersion,
- back,
- baptism,
- baptismal gown,
- baptismal regeneration,
- baptistery,
- baptizement,
- bastard type,
- beard,
- belly,
- bevel,
- black letter,
- body,
- bonanza,
- cap,
- capital,
- case,
- chalice,
- chrismal,
- chrismatory,
- christening,
- ciborium,
- cornucopia,
- counter,
- cruet,
- descender,
- em,
- en,
- face,
- fat-faced type,
- feet,
- flush,
- fount,
- fountain,
- fountainhead,
- geyser,
- gold mine,
- groove,
- gush,
- headspring,
- headstream,
- headwater,
- holy-water font,
- immersion,
- infusion,
- italic,
- jet,
- letter,
- ligature,
- lode,
- logotype,
- lower case,
- mainspring,
- majuscule,
- mine,
- minuscule,
- monstrance,
- nick,
- ostensorium,
- pi,
- pica,
- point,
- print,
- pyx,
- quarry,
- reliquary,
- resource,
- riverhead,
- roman,
- rush,
- sans serif,
- script,
- shank,
- shoulder,
- small cap,
- small capital,
- source,
- source of supply,
- spew,
- spit,
- spout,
- spouter,
- spray,
- spring,
- springhead,
- sprinkling,
- spritz,
- spurt,
- spurtle,
- squirt,
- stamp,
- staple,
- stem,
- total immersion,
- type,
- type body,
- type class,
- type lice,
- typecase,
- typeface,
- typefounders,
- typefoundry,
- upper case,
- vein,
- well,
- wellhead,
- wellspring