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FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fountain described in folk tales as able to make people young again
Example:
Ponce de Leon discovered Florida while searching for the Fountain of Youth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("Fountain of Youth" is a kind of...):
fountain; natural spring; outflow; outpouring; spring (a natural flow of ground water)