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Meaning of Jazz Age | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States.

historical

Examples

“This is a story that has it all[:] a Jazz Age background, a pleasure-loving president surrounded by booze and chorus girls, boomtown capitalists from the Wild West, conniving politicians, mysterious suicides and a glamorous star witness named Roxy.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

jazz band jazz bow jazz box jazz cabbage jazz cigarette jazz dance