Meaning of golden age | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The oldest and best of the Classical Ages of Man, when people lived innocent lives of happiness and prosperity.
2. A period of happiness, peace, prosperity, and great progress.
   idiomatic
3. Any previous period similarly viewed as superior to the present.
4. The Golden Age.

Equivalents

Examples

“The first half of this century has been referred to as the golden age of medicine. To me it seems more probable that we are on the threshold of a much greater age.”

“When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog . . . Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself.”

“That unprecedented act of petulance risks undermining Wall Street’s confidence in the economy and undercutting Trump’s campaign pledge to give the United States another economic “golden age.””

“The tradition of a "Golden Age" is widespread over the world, and it is not necessary to go at any length into the story of the Garden of Eden and the other legends which in almost every country illustrate this tradition.”

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