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golden age
golden agen.1. A period of great peace, prosperity, and happiness.2. Greek & Roman Mythology The first age of the world, an untroubled and prosperous era during which people lived in ideal happiness.golden age n 1. (Classical Myth & Legend) classical myth the first and best age of mankind, when existence was happy, prosperous, and innocent 2. the most flourishing and outstanding period, esp in the history of an art or nation: the golden age of poetry. 3. (Literary & Literary Critical Movements) the great classical period of Latin literature, occupying approximately the 1st century bc and represented by such writers as Cicero and Virgil gold′en age′
n. the most flourishing period in the history of a nation, literature, people, etc. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  golden age - a time period when some activity or skill was at its peak; "it was the golden age of cinema"efflorescence, flush, heyday, peak, prime, blossom, flower, bloom - the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | | 2. | golden age - any period (sometimes imaginary) of great peace and prosperity and happinesshistoric period, age - an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age" | | 3. | Golden Age - (classical mythology) the first and best age of the world, a time of ideal happiness, prosperity, and innocence; by extension, any flourishing and outstanding periodclassical mythology - the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greeksperiod, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" |
Translationsgolden age
golden ageA period of or defined by outstanding excellence, quality, prosperity, or achievement. This Halloween, we're having a marathon of all the monster movies from the golden age of cinema. Many people look back on the 1950s as some kind of golden age, completely ignoring or denying many of the deep-rooted social injustices that typified that time in America.See also: age, goldengolden ageA 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. See also: age, goldenthe golden age of something The golden age of a particular field of activity is a period of time during which it was very successful or of a very high quality. You grew up in the golden age of American children's books. The Middle Ages were the golden age of the spice trade.See also: age, golden, of, somethinga golden age a period in the past when things were at their best, happiest, or most successful. According to Greek and Roman mythology, the Golden Age was the earliest and best age of the world, when human beings lived in a state of perfect happiness. The Ages of Silver, Brass, and Iron represented successive stages of a descent into barbarism and misery.See also: age, goldenthe ˈgolden age (of something) the period during which something is very successful, especially in the past: This book looks back on the golden age of steam engines, and all railway fans will enjoy it immensely.See also: age, goldengolden age
Golden Age, in classical mythology: see mythologymythology
[Greek,=the telling of stories], the entire body of myths in a given tradition, and the study of myths. Students of anthropology, folklore, and religion study myths in different ways, distinguishing them from various other forms of popular, often orally transmitted,
..... Click the link for more information. .Golden Agelegendary period under the rule of Cronus when life was easy and blissful for all. [Gk. Myth.: NCE, 33]See: Utopiagolden age1. Classical myth the first and best age of mankind, when existence was happy, prosperous, and innocent 2. the great classical period of Latin literature, occupying approximately the 1st century bc and represented by such writers as Cicero and Virgil golden age
Words related to golden agenoun a time period when some activity or skill was at its peakRelated Words- efflorescence
- flush
- heyday
- peak
- prime
- blossom
- flower
- bloom
noun any period (sometimes imaginary) of great peace and prosperity and happinessRelated Wordsnoun (classical mythology) the first and best age of the world, a time of ideal happiness, prosperity, and innocenceRelated Words- classical mythology
- period
- period of time
- time period
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