GOLDEN AGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Golden Age mean? 

• GOLDEN AGE (noun)
  The noun GOLDEN AGE has 3 senses:

1. a time period when some activity or skill was at its peak

2. any period (sometimes imaginary) of great peace and prosperity and happiness

3. (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

  Familiarity information: GOLDEN AGE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOLDEN AGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A time period when some activity or skill was at its peak

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

it was the golden age of cinema

Hypernyms ("golden age" is a kind of...):

bloom; blossom; efflorescence; flower; flush; heyday; peak; prime (the period of greatest prosperity or productivity)

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:

(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)

 Context examples 

My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have brought you a book for evening solace, and he laid on the table a new publication—a poem: one of those genuine productions so often vouchsafed to the fortunate public of those days—the golden age of modern literature.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)