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JAZZ AGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Jazz Age mean?
• JAZZ AGE (noun)
The noun JAZZ AGE has 1 sense:
1. the 1920s in the United States characterized in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a period of wealth, youthful exuberance, and carefree hedonism
Familiarity information: JAZZ AGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The 1920s in the United States characterized in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a period of wealth, youthful exuberance, and carefree hedonism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Jazz Age" is a kind of...):
age; historic period (an era of history having some distinctive feature)
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