gilded agen.

Brit.

/ˈɡɪldᵻd eɪdʒ/, U.S.

/ˈɡɪldᵻd ˌeɪdʒ/

Forms: also with capital initials.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: gilded adj., age n.

Etymology: < gilded adj. + age n., after golden age n.

1. A period of excellence or success, esp. (in contrast to golden age) one perceived as being superficial, flawed, or in decline.

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > time of prosperity

highOE

golden age1561

halcyon days1570

gilded age1655

heyday1751

high point1787

millennium1821

palmy days1837

up1843

clover summer1866

flower-time1873

belle époque1910

glory-days1956

1655 F. Raworth Jacobs Ladder 172 What iron hearts have we in this golden and in this gilded age?

1896 Eng. Hist. Rev. 11 451 In 1317 the gilded age of papal legislation came to an end; the golden age was already in the past.

1915 Studies 4 410 There was much in the government of Catherine to justify the doubt..as to whether her reign was the golden age, or merely the gilded age.

1971 New Statesman 22 Oct. 551/2 This was its [sc. Berlin's] gilded age, when Max Reinhardt revolutionized the theatre; Richard Strauss conducted the Royal Opera; [etc.].

2001 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 28 May b3 This is the Gilded Age of education; the rot has set in and the foundation is about to buckle.

2. A period of economic growth and considerable material wealth, esp. one characterized by greed, social inequality, etc. Chiefly spec. (U.S. historical) the period of rapid economic growth, industrial development, and wealth creation in the late 19th cent., between the end of Reconstruction (c1870) and the turn of the century. [After The Gilded Age, the title of a satirical novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, published in 1873 and subtitled ‘a Tale of To-day’.]

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the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > other historical periods

antiquityc1375

Christian antiquity1577

the days of ignorance1652

the time of ignorance1652

dark ages1656

Lower Empire1668

the age of reason1792

Scythism1793

grand siècle1811

the Age of Enlightenment1825

the Hundred Days1827

Tom and Jerry days1840

regency1841

industrial age1843

Régence1845

viking age1847

ignorance1867

renascence1868

Renaissance1872

gilded age1874

jazz era1919

jazz age1920

post-war1934

steam age1941

postcolonialism1955

information age1960

1874 Daily Arkansas Gaz. (Little Rock, Arkansas) 26 Feb. It would be patriotic to build cotton manufactories, but profitable to loan money... This is not an age in which men act from patriotic motives. It is the Gilded Age of Mark Twain.

1927 Harper's Mag. Oct. 571/2 The smudged and muddled civilization now known to history as the Gilded Age.

1945 Times 31 Dec. 6/4 That predatory gilded age of American expansion.

1973 Western Hist. Q. 4 459 ‘Gilded age’ America turned her attention to the many problems accompanying industrialization, urbanization, and the settling of the..West.

1991 Sun (Lowell, Mass.) 24 Oct. 41/3 Clinton..said..‘The 1980s ushered in a gilded age of greed and selfishness, irresponsibility, excess and neglect.’

2004 N.Y. Times 25 Jan. iv. 5/1 China is living through a Gilded Age of inequality, whose benefits are not trickling down to..rural residents.

2015 T. Gloege Guaranteed Pure 7 Evangelicalism encouraged believers to expect..reform of a society that seemed to be teetering on the edge of collapse under the social, political, and economic crises of the Gilded Age.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	gilded age
释义	gilded agen. Brit. /ˈɡɪldᵻd eɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈɡɪldᵻd ˌeɪdʒ/ Forms: also with capital initials. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: gilded adj., age n. Etymology: < gilded adj. + age n., after golden age n. 1. A period of excellence or success, esp. (in contrast to golden age) one perceived as being superficial, flawed, or in decline. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > time of prosperity highOE golden age1561 halcyon days1570 gilded age1655 heyday1751 high point1787 millennium1821 palmy days1837 up1843 clover summer1866 flower-time1873 belle époque1910 glory-days1956 1655 F. Raworth Jacobs Ladder 172 What iron hearts have we in this golden and in this gilded age? 1896 Eng. Hist. Rev. 11 451 In 1317 the gilded age of papal legislation came to an end; the golden age was already in the past. 1915 Studies 4 410 There was much in the government of Catherine to justify the doubt..as to whether her reign was the golden age, or merely the gilded age. 1971 New Statesman 22 Oct. 551/2 This was its [sc. Berlin's] gilded age, when Max Reinhardt revolutionized the theatre; Richard Strauss conducted the Royal Opera; [etc.]. 2001 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 28 May b3 This is the Gilded Age of education; the rot has set in and the foundation is about to buckle. 2. A period of economic growth and considerable material wealth, esp. one characterized by greed, social inequality, etc. Chiefly spec. (U.S. historical) the period of rapid economic growth, industrial development, and wealth creation in the late 19th cent., between the end of Reconstruction (c1870) and the turn of the century. [After The Gilded Age, the title of a satirical novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, published in 1873 and subtitled ‘a Tale of To-day’.] ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > other historical periods antiquityc1375 Christian antiquity1577 the days of ignorance1652 the time of ignorance1652 dark ages1656 Lower Empire1668 the age of reason1792 Scythism1793 grand siècle1811 the Age of Enlightenment1825 the Hundred Days1827 Tom and Jerry days1840 regency1841 industrial age1843 Régence1845 viking age1847 ignorance1867 renascence1868 Renaissance1872 gilded age1874 jazz era1919 jazz age1920 post-war1934 steam age1941 postcolonialism1955 information age1960 1874 Daily Arkansas Gaz. (Little Rock, Arkansas) 26 Feb. It would be patriotic to build cotton manufactories, but profitable to loan money... This is not an age in which men act from patriotic motives. It is the Gilded Age of Mark Twain. 1927 Harper's Mag. Oct. 571/2 The smudged and muddled civilization now known to history as the Gilded Age. 1945 Times 31 Dec. 6/4 That predatory gilded age of American expansion. 1973 Western Hist. Q. 4 459 ‘Gilded age’ America turned her attention to the many problems accompanying industrialization, urbanization, and the settling of the..West. 1991 Sun (Lowell, Mass.) 24 Oct. 41/3 Clinton..said..‘The 1980s ushered in a gilded age of greed and selfishness, irresponsibility, excess and neglect.’ 2004 N.Y. Times 25 Jan. iv. 5/1 China is living through a Gilded Age of inequality, whose benefits are not trickling down to..rural residents. 2015 T. Gloege Guaranteed Pure 7 Evangelicalism encouraged believers to expect..reform of a society that seemed to be teetering on the edge of collapse under the social, political, and economic crises of the Gilded Age. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1655
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