Wiktionary:Word of the day/2025/September 27

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Word of the day
for September 27
fount n
  1. (chiefly poetic, dated or archaic) Synonym of fountain (“a natural source of water”); a spring.
  2. (by extension, agriculture, archaic) A device from which poultry may drink; a waterer.
  3. (figurative) That from which something proceeds; an origin, a source.

  1. (UK, printing, typography, chiefly dated, historical) Synonym of font (“a set of glyphs of unified design, usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters belonging to one typeface, style, and weight; a typeface; a family of typefaces”)

The English pastor and scholar Robert Robinson, who composed the hymn “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” at the age of 22, was born on this day 290 years ago in 1735.

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