font

  1. Noun.  A receptacle in a church for holy water - especially one used in baptism.
  2. Noun.  A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
  3. Noun.  (figuratively) spring, source, fountain.
  4. Noun.  (typography) 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.
  5. Noun.  (computing) 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. A font file.
  6. Noun.  (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.