Golden Age (original) (raw)

I. (noun)

Sense 1

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)

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:

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

Example:

it was the golden age of cinema

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

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

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