font Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a specific size and style of type within a type family
    case; fount; face; typeface.
  2. noun bowl for baptismal water
    baptistry; baptistery; baptismal font.

WordNet

Font noun
Etymology
F. fonte, fr. fondre to melt or cast. See Found to cast, and cf. Fount a font.
Definitions
  1. (Print.) A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.
Font noun
Etymology
AS. font, fant, fr. L. fons, fontis, spring, fountain; cf. OF. font, funt, F. fonts, fonts baptismaux, pl. See Fount.
Definitions
  1. A fountain; a spring; a source.
    Bathing forever in the font of bliss. Young.
  2. A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.
    That name was given me at the font. Shak.

Webster 1913