单词 | fount |
释义 | fount (faʊnt ) Word forms: founts countable noun [usually singular] If you describe a person or thing as the fount of something, you are saying that they are an important source or supply of it. [literary] To the young boy his father was the fount of all knowledge. [+ of] Collocations: fount of wisdom This fount of wisdom couldn't have been more wrong. Times, Sunday Times Yet the smartphone and tablet are not a fount of wisdom on ways to limit all our expenditure. Times, Sunday Times He seems to have suffered from being on display all his life, first as a model, then as an artistic prodigy, and finally as a fount of wisdom. The Times Literary Supplement |
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