fountain : Idioms & Phrases

• a contrivance for producing a jet of water by the force of compressed air.

Webster 1913

• noun a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water
  drinking fountain; bubbler.
  

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• noun tall perennial ornamental grass with long nodding flower plumes of tropical Africa and Asia
  Pennisetum ruppelii; Pennisetum setaceum.
  

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• noun a fountain described in folk tales as able to make people young again
  
  • Ponce de Leon discovered Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth

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• noun a pen that is supplied with ink from a reservoir in its barrel
  

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• noun a counter where ice cream and sodas and sundaes are prepared and served
  
• noun an apparatus for dispensing soda water
  

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• an apparatus for drawing soda water, fitted with delivery tube, faucets, etc.

Webster 1913

• noun a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water
  drinking fountain; bubbler.
  

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