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FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Fountain of Youth mean?
• FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH (noun)
The noun FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH has 1 sense:
1. a fountain described in folk tales as able to make people young again
Familiarity information: FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fountain described in folk tales as able to make people young again
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Context example:
Ponce de Leon discovered Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth
Hypernyms ("Fountain of Youth" is a kind of...):
fountain; natural spring; outflow; outpouring; spring (a natural flow of ground water)
Context examples
It smell so like the waters of Lethe, and of that fountain of youth that the Conquistadores sought for in the Floridas, and find him all too late.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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