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GOLDEN AGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(classical mythology) the first and best age of the world, a time of ideal happiness, prosperity, and innocence; by extension, any flourishing and outstanding period
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Golden Age" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Domain category:
classical mythology (the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greeks)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any period (sometimes imaginary) of great peace and prosperity and happiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("golden age" is a kind of...):
age; historic period (an era of history having some distinctive feature)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A time period when some activity or skill was at its peak
Example:
it was the golden age of cinema
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("golden age" is a kind of...):
bloom; blossom; efflorescence; flower; flush; heyday; peak; prime (the period of greatest prosperity or productivity)
