different between fount vs storehouse

English

Etymology 1

Shortening of fountain

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?nt

Noun

fount (plural founts)

1. Something from which water flows.
2. A device from which poultry may drink.
3. (figuratively) That from which something flows or proceeds; a source.

   He is a real fount of knowledge!

Synonyms

• font
• fountain
• (device from which animals drink): waterer

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle French fonte, feminine past participle of verb fondre (“to melt”).

Alternative forms

• font

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?nt/
• Homophone: font

Noun

fount (plural founts)

1. (typography, Britain, dated) A typographic font.

References

• “fount” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Bringhurst, Robert (2002). The Elements of Typographic Style, version 2.5, pp 291–2. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks. ?ISBN.

Anagrams

• FUTON, futon

Occitan

Noun

fount f (plural founts)

1. spring, fountain

English

Etymology

store +? house

Noun

storehouse (plural storehouses)

1. A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions

   Synonyms: magazine, repository, warehouse

2. (figuratively, by extension) A single location or resource where a large quantity of something can be found.

3. (obsolete) A mass or quantity laid up.

Hypernyms

• house

Translations

Verb

storehouse (third-person singular simple present storehouses, present participle storehousing, simple past and past participle storehoused)

1. (transitive) To lay up in store.