fountain of youth

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   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”

   Broaderspring

Questions about fountain of youth

What does fountain of youth mean?

fountain of youth means "a fountain described in folk tales as able to make people young again".

Is fountain of youth a common word?

fountain of youth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.