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golden age en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɡoʊl.dən eɪd͡ʒ/ (US)
• /ˈɡəʊl.dən eɪd͡ʒ/ (UK)

Meanings

1. (idiomatic) 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. 1951 March, John W. Cline, “The Future of Medicine”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 3, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 165:
   • That unprecedented act of petulance risks undermining Wall Street’s confidence in the economy and undercutting Trump’s campaign pledge to give the United States another economic “golden age.” 2025 August 7, Jonathan Lemire, “Things Aren’t Going Donald Trump’s Way”, in The Atlantic:
   • When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog . . . Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:
2. 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. 2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 75, number 1, page 16:

Forms

Coordinates

silver age

Relateds

golden oldie · golden days · Gilded Age · golden anniversary · golden time · golden years

Synonyms

golden era

Translations (44)

es siglo dorado (time of progress and achievement) · fi kulta-aika (time of progress and achievement) · ko 황금기 (time of progress and achievement) · fa عصر طلایی (time of progress and achievement) · vi thời hoàng kim (time of progress and achievement) · nl gouden eeuw (time of progress and achievement) · nn gullalder (time of progress and achievement) · ar عَصْر ذَهَبِيّ (time of progress and achievement) · he תּוֹר הַזָּהָב (time of progress and achievement) · fa عصر شکوفایی (time of progress and achievement) · sv storhetstid (time of progress and achievement) · id zaman kejayaan (time of progress and achievement) · nb storhetstid (time of progress and achievement) · es edad de oro (time of progress and achievement) · ka ოქროს ხანა (time of progress and achievement) · sv guldålder (time of progress and achievement) · ta பொற்காலம் (time of progress and achievement) · hi स्वर्ण युग (time of progress and achievement) · ru золото́й век (time of progress and achievement) · pl złoty wiek (time of progress and achievement) · nn stordomstid (time of progress and achievement) · es edad dorada (time of progress and achievement) · eo orepoko (time of progress and achievement) · cmn 黃金時代 /黄金时代 (time of progress and achievement) · el χρυσή εποχή (time of progress and achievement) · de goldenes Zeitalter (time of progress and achievement) · nb gullalder (time of progress and achievement) · ja 黄金時代 (time of progress and achievement) · es época dorada (time of progress and achievement) · pt anos dourados (time of progress and achievement) · grc χρύσεον γένος (time of progress and achievement) · it età d'oro (time of progress and achievement) · is gullöld (time of progress and achievement) · tr altın çağ (time of progress and achievement) · it periodo d'oro (time of progress and achievement) · ro epocă de aur (time of progress and achievement) · bg златен век (time of progress and achievement) · la aetas aurea (time of progress and achievement) · ko 황금시대 (time of progress and achievement) · fr âge d'or (time of progress and achievement) · fa دوران طلایی (time of progress and achievement) · da guldalder (time of progress and achievement) · es siglo de oro (time of progress and achievement) · hu aranykor (time of progress and achievement)