fountain vs formation

fountain and formation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fountain	Yes	No	No	No
formation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, formation is a hypernym of fountain; that is, formation is a word with a broader meaning than fountain:

Other hypernyms of fountain include geological formation.

fountain (noun)	formation (noun)
a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water	the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
an artificially produced flow of water	the act of forming or establishing something
a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises	creation by mental activity
a natural flow of ground water	a particular spatial arrangement
	an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit
	(geology) the geological features of the earth
	natural process that causes something to form