SILVER AGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silver age mean? 

• SILVER AGE (noun)
  The noun SILVER AGE has 1 sense:

1. (classical mythology) the second age of the world, characterized by opulence and irreligion; by extension, a period secondary in achievement to a golden age

  Familiarity information: SILVER AGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILVER AGE (noun)

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Meaning:

(classical mythology) the second age of the world, characterized by opulence and irreligion; by extension, a period secondary in achievement to a golden age

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("silver 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)