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# fountain

«fountain» in Mova's school dictionary: **a stream of water pushed up into the air, often as a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (fountain, fountains)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A fountain is a stream of water pushed up into the air, often as a decoration in a park or square. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fountain/#m1)

2) A drinking fountain is a device that gives a small stream of water to drink from. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fountain/#m2)

3) A fountain can mean a flow or rich source of something («a fountain of ideas»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fountain/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, parks and squares have fountains; schools have drinking fountains (water fountains, or «bubblers» in Australia). In science, fountains show water pressure. Phrases: «drinking fountain», «water fountain», «fountain pen», «chocolate fountain».

### examples

- We threw coins into the fountain and made a wish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fountain/#x1)
- There's a drinking fountain by the playground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fountain/#x2)
- The fountain shot water high into the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fountain/#x3)
- Pigeons washed in the fountain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fountain/#x4)
- Dad writes with an old fountain pen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fountain/#x5)
- The party had a chocolate fountain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fountain/#x6)
- Don't climb in the fountain; the stones are slippery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fountain/#x7)
- Not far from the fountain there lived a family of bricklayers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fountain/#x8)

### note

Spelling: «-tain» as in «mountain». Countable. In Australia a drinking fountain is often called a «bubbler». Not a number word.

### In the corpora

- [Drop Mentos into a bottle of diet cola (outside, with an adult, standing well back) and a fountain shoots up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/19-fizzy-drinks-mentos-and-cola/4/)
- [Coins thrown into a wishing fountain are usually collected for charity, so they still belong to someone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/17/)
- [the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.197/)
- [Behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.633/)
- [And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban; and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the fountain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.650/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fountain» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fountain/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.