golden age
the most flourishing period in the history of a nation, literature, etc.
Classical Mythology. the first and best of the four ages of humankind; an era of peace and innocence that finally yielded to the silver age.
(usually initial capital letters) a period in Latin literature, 70 b.c. to a.d. 14, in which Cicero, Catullus, Horace, Vergil, Ovid, and others wrote; the first phase of Classical Latin.: Compare silver age (def. 2).
the period in life after middle age, traditionally characterized by wisdom, contentment, and useful leisure.
the age at which a person normally retires.
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How to use golden age in a sentence
Set at the Polo Grounds in New York, the cartoon also presaged a golden age of baseball that saw the city’s three teams dominate the national pastime.
‘Baseball Bugs’ at 75: How a Looney Tunes classic left its mark on America’s pastime | Frederic J. Frommer | February 25, 2021 | Washington PostWe are living in the golden age of condensed matter physics.
Compared to 2020, all previous years, even the Disco Era, were the golden age of human existence.
In 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe got closer to the sun than any other spacecraft has before, and this year the golden age of “heliophysics” continued.
I get to test a lot of great underwear as a result of this golden age, but when I need a little extra comfort, I reach for the ReActive.
The Second Republic was also considered the another golden age for Korean Cinema.
Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea | Rich Goldstein | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“The golden age of Parisian smiles nurtured, and was nurtured by, the rise of dentistry as a vocation,” writes Jones.
Yet you are also bringing them back to something belletristic that harkens back to an editorial golden age.
Meghan Daum On Tackling The Unspeakable Parts Of Life | David Yaffe | December 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMy golden age comes to a halt with the ascendancy of music videos.
Cast an eye over the history of the Supreme Court, and you will see no golden age of apolitical judging.
A Reminder: Our Justices are Politicians in Robes | Jedediah Purdy | November 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI have an indistinct memory of a beautiful passage in Ovid, which describes the golden age.
Michael often looked back to that first term in the Lower Third as a period of Arcadian simplicity, a golden age.
Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton MackenzieIn our study of Raphael, we had a glimpse of the golden age of art in Italy.
Great Artists, Vol 1. | Jennie Ellis KeysorShe is not content to fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden age.
American Sketches | Charles WhibleyMr. Burns had read the golden age, and pronounced it a smart publication.
Mystic London: | Charles Maurice Davies
British Dictionary definitions for golden age
classical myth the first and best age of mankind, when existence was happy, prosperous, and innocent
the most flourishing and outstanding period, esp in the history of an art or nation: the golden age of poetry
the great classical period of Latin literature, occupying approximately the 1st century bc and represented by such writers as Cicero and Virgil
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Other Idioms and Phrases with golden age
A period of prosperity or excellent achievement, as in Some consider the baroque period the golden age of choral music. The expression dates from the mid-1500s, when it was first applied to a period of classical Latin poetry.
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