1
- an ornamental structure in a pool or lake from which one or more jets of water are pumped into the air喷泉。
1.1
- short for DRINKING FOUNTAIN.
1.2
- figurative a thing that spurts or cascades into the air〈喻〉喷射（或喷流）物：
little fountains of dust.
喷泉般涌出的灰尘。
2
- poetic/literary or S. African a natural spring of water〈诗/文或南非〉天然泉。
2.1
- a source of a desirable quality源, 源泉：
the government always quote this report as the fountain of truth.
政府老是引用这份报告, 把它当作真理的源泉。
3
- Heraldry a roundel barry wavy argent and azure (i.e. a circle with wavy horizontal stripes of blue and white)【纹章】银蓝相间波状纹圆盾。
no obj.
- spurt or cascade like a fountain喷射; 喷流：
she watched the blood fountaining from her wrists.
她看着血从手腕喷涌而出。
派生词
fountained
adjective （poetic/literary 〈诗/文〉）词源
Middle English (in sense 2)： from Old French fontaine, from late Latin fontana, feminine of Latin fontanus, adjective from fons, font- 'a spring'.