wishing well

American  

noun

1. a well or pool of water supposed to grant the wish of one who tosses a coin into it.

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Example Sentences

We stopped by a wishing well, where a worker handed me a token to throw down to an animated genie who promised to grant my desires.

From Los Angeles Times

With its red-accented A-frame roof, footbridge and wishing well, the home echoed the dwarfs’ forest abode from the movie, but sat in the distinctly more metropolitan locale of the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.

From Salon

Asked what she sees in a magic wishing well, she replies, “Water.”

From Los Angeles Times

His photographs of the Lubber Run Park amphitheater’s “wishing well” — a collection box for donations, he said — show charred wood strewn amid fallen leaves.

From Washington Post

“That wishing well is the first thing I noticed when we came to town. Might be nice to remind people of it.”

From Literature