Font
[fɒnt] or [fɑnt]
Definition
(noun.) a specific size and style of type within a type family.
Typed by Gwendolyn--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A fountain; a spring; a source.
(n.) A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.
Edited by Cheryl
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Baptismal vessel.[2]. Fount, assortment of types.
Typed by Corinne
Definition
n. the vessels used in churches as the repository of the baptismal water usually a basin or cup hollowed out of a solid block of marble &c.—adj. Font′al pertaining to a font or origin.—ns. Font′let a little font; Font′-stone a baptismal font of stone.
n. a complete assortment of types of one sort with all that is necessary for printing in that kind of letter.
Typist: Lucinda
Examples
- Sch?ffer cast a font of Greek type, and used this in printing a copy of Cicero’s De Officiis, which was eagerly bought by the professors and students of the great University of Paris. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- So he made the first font of movable type known to history. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- My inn had once been a part of an ancient ecclesiastical house, and I dined in a little octagonal common-room, like a font. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Typist: Psyche