font
/fɑnt/
Frequency: 3.80 in modern English
Meaning
noun
A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
noun
A receptacle for lamp oil in a lamp.
noun
A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
noun
A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
noun
A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
noun
A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
Example Sentences
- "She dipped her fingers in the font and crossed herself."
- "Blessed be God, that, at the font, / My sponsors bound me to the call / Of Christ in England to confront / The world, the flesh, the fiend and all."
- "In the Apostolic Age, as in Jewish times (John, iii, 23), baptism was administered without special fonts, at the seaside or in streams or pools of water (Acts, viii, 38); […]"
- "They bought a license for the Gulliver font and installed that font on several machines."
- "I like the font of this logo."
- "When figures or quotes are thought helpful to understanding a spot, they're "fonted" over the cover picture."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /fɑnt/
- British English: /fɒnt/