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Definition of Fountain of youth
1. Noun. A fountain described in folk tales as able to make people young again. "Ponce de Leon discovered Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth"
Definition of Fountain of youth
1. Proper noun. (mythology) legendary Legendary spring of water with magical properties to restore youth and health to those who drink from it. ¹
2. Noun. (idiomatic) Anything reputed to have the power to restore health and vitality or to restore a youthful appearance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fountain Of Youth
Literary usage of Fountain of youth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"THE fountain of youth A DREAM OF PONCE DE LEON [1513] A STORT of Ponce de Leon,
A voyager, withered and old, Who came to the sunny Antilles, ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"Fríe Fountain of Youth at Sawtelle THE little town of Sawtelle, a few minutes'
ride from Los Angeles, California, is likely to become more than a mere dot ..."
3. Graham's Magazine by Graham, George R, Edgar Allan Poe, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1852)
"... and when this flaying process was concluded, the whole party slowly recovered.
THE fountain of youth. ... fur the fountain of youth, And this legend ..."
4. A Literary Middle English Reader by Albert Stanburrough Cook (1915)
"THE fountain of youth Text, p. 84. Mandeville is here indebted to the so-called
... The European notions of the Fountain of Youth all go back to this, ..."
5. A Literary Middle English Reader by Albert Stanburrough Cook (1915)
"THE fountain of youth Text, p. 84. Mandeville is here indebted to the so-called
... The European notions of the Fountain of Youth all go back to this, ..."
6. The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell: With Illustrations by James Russell Lowell (1891)
"THE fountain of youth. 'Т 1Я a woodland enchanted ! Than blackbirds and thrashes,
By no sadder spirit That whistle to cheer it This woodland is haunted ..."
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