Fountain of Youth
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- noun
- Literature
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fuente de la juventud
- "Because this is the Fountain of Youth, m'dear; and if you drink from it, not only will you get younger, but you'll live forever."
- search for the Fountain of Youth
- find the Fountain of Youth
- discover the Fountain of Youth
If you don't find the Fountain of Youth, don't come back.
- If you don't find the Fountain of Youth, don't come back.
- And realizing that Ponce de Leon was looking for the fountain of youth allowed me to see what people were doing.
- In other words, the fountain of youth that emperors, kings and Queens lusted ever over.
- All right, you know, and we want people to enjoy the the fountain of youth is in your food.
- So instead of calling it the fountain of youth, I call it the fountain of you, capital YOU.
Examples
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There's always some new Ponce de Leon fountain of youth that people have found, especially on the Internet.
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Many adventurers have sought the Fountain of Youth in hopes of regaining their lost vitality.
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"Are you looking for the Fountain of Youth?" the child asked him.
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"Did you find the Fountain of Youth?" she said.
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As you all know, Ponce de Leon searched his entire life for the Fountain of Youth.
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If you don't find the Fountain of Youth, don't come back.
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Ponce de León scoured Florida for the Fountain of Youth.
Blog text (5) -
When I was a child in Austria... ...my mother used to tell me the story of Ponce de León... ...and his quest for the Fountain of Youth.
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The truth of the matter isn't nearly as exciting: Ponce de León and the Fountain of Youth weren't linked until after his death.
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According to legend, the Fountain of Youth has the power to make people young again.
Synonyms
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A magic drink that makes a person live forever and never grow old
How Life-Giving
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a spring that restores youth' is directly and compositionally built from 'fountain' (a spring) + 'youth' (being young); the pattern 'fountain of X' transparently denotes a spring associated with X, so a learner who knows the constituents can infer a spring related to youth and its restorative/mythical implication. This concept is also present in other languages (e.g., Spanish 'Fuente de la Juventud'), supporting cross-linguistic transparency.
Etymology
Fountain of Youth comes from old stories about a magic spring where people who drank or washed in the water became young again. The words fountain and youth give a simple picture of a water source that returns youth, and one famous tale says explorers looked for it to gain 'immortality', so today we call anything that makes someone feel younger a Fountain of Youth.