Usually means: Water feature spraying, decorative, refreshing.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word fountain:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. fountain: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fountain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fountain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fountain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fountain: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fountain, fountain: Wordnik
  7. fountain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Fountain, fountain: Wiktionary
  9. fountain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fountain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fountain: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fountain, fountain: Dictionary.com
  13. fountain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fountain: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fountain (Ashgabat), Fountain (Duchamp), Fountain (disambiguation), Fountain (film), Fountain (heraldry), Fountain (juggling), Fountain (markup language), Fountain, The Fountain (album), The Fountain (comics), The Fountain (disambiguation), The Fountain (film), The Fountain (magazine), The Fountain (soundtrack), The Fountain, The fountain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fountain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fountain: Rhymezone
  18. fountain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. fountain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. fountain: Free Dictionary
  21. fountain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. fountain: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. fountain: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fountain: CCI Computer
  2. fountain: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fountain: Easton Bible
  2. Fountain: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fountain: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Fountain: A Seattle Lexicon
  2. Fountain, Fountain, The Fountain: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See fountaining as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (originally) A natural source of water; a spring.
noun:  An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
noun:  The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
noun:  A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
noun:  A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
noun:  (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
noun:  (juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
noun:  (US) A soda fountain.
noun:  (US) A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.
noun:  A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
noun:  (figurative) Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.
verb:  (intransitive) To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
noun:  A placename:
noun:  A ghost town in Mendocino County, California, United States.
noun:  A city in El Paso County, Colorado, United States, named after Fountain Creek (Arkansas River tributary).
noun:  An unincorporated community in Bay County, Florida, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Illinois, United States.
noun:  A city in Fountain County, Indiana, United States, USA formerly known as Portland.
noun:  A village in Mason County, Michigan, United States.
noun:  A city in Fillmore County, Minnesota, United States.
noun:  A town in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States.
noun:  A town in Juneau County, Wisconsin, United States.
noun:  A topographic surname.

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