fountain of youth
Anything reputed to have the power to restore health and vitality or to restore a youthful appearance.
Just watching the advertisement, you'd think the face cream was a fountain of youth.
fountain
UK /ˈfaʊn.tɪn/ US [ˈfaʊn.tn̩]
noun 5name 5verb 1
Collocations
3(noun.)
ADJ
ornamental
drinking
My sister filled her water bottle at the drinking fountain after her gym class.
FOUNTAIN + VERB
play, splash
Water splashed from the old fountain in the park every afternoon.
Definitions
noun
1
A natural source of water; a spring.
A little fountaine became a riuer, and there was light, & the Sunne, and much water: this riuer is Eſther, whō the King married and made Queene.
2
An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
His house is right beside that fountain on Street 15.
3
The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
4
A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
They heard her rouse the sleeping servant, and with her enter the kitchen; then the noise of a fire being lighted and the fountain being filled came to the watchers.
5
A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
Nothing will pleaſe ſome Men, but Books ſtuff’d with Antiquity, groaning under the weight of Learned Quotations drawn from the Fountains: And what is all this but Pilfering.
My lighter moods are like to these, That out of words a comfort win; But there are other griefs within, And tears that at their fountain freeze; […]
verb
1
To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
Lava fountained from the volcano.
The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.
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A little fountaine became a riuer, and there was light, & the Sunne, and much water: this riuer is Eſther, whō the King married and made Queene.
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His house is right beside that fountain on Street 15.
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As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
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Lava fountained from the volcano.
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The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like
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There is a fountain in front of the station.
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