Golden Age
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golden age¹
- /ˈɡəʊl.dən eɪd͡ʒ/ UK
- /ˈɡoʊl.dən eɪd͡ʒ/ US
noun golden ages
- A period of happiness, peace, prosperity, and great progress. 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.
- The Golden Age. But in a study of Sumerian and Akkadian sources, Chen has shown that, although the motif of a lost golden age is very old in Mesopotamian literature, its termination in a flood is securely attested only from the second millennium B.C.E.
Golden Age²
proper noun golden age
- The oldest and best of the Classical Ages of Man, when people lived innocent lives of happiness and prosperity.
- Any previous period similarly viewed as superior to the present. 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.