A spring or fountain; a source or origin from which something flows or originates.
From Old French fonte, from Latin fontana (fountain or spring), related to fons (spring). The word originally meant a natural spring and evolved to mean any source.
A 'fount of knowledge' uses the same water imagery as 'fountain'—both words picture knowledge flowing out endlessly like a spring that never runs dry.
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