| 单词 | jazz age |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjazz age jazz age n. (frequently with capital initials) a period regarded as characterized by the popularity of jazz; spec. (frequently with reference to the United States) the period between the end of the First World War (1918) and the Great Depression of the 1930s, which was marked by economic prosperity, and dynamic cultural and social change (cf. jazz era n.). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > other historical periods antiquityc1375 Christian antiquity1577 the days of ignorance1652 the time of ignorance1652 dark ages1656 Lower Empire1668 the age of reason1792 Scythism1793 grand siècle1811 the Age of Enlightenment1825 the Hundred Days1827 Tom and Jerry days1840 regency1841 industrial age1843 Régence1845 viking age1847 ignorance1867 renascence1868 Renaissance1872 gilded age1874 jazz era1919 jazz age1920 post-war1934 steam age1941 postcolonialism1955 information age1960 1920 Dunkirk (N.Y.) Evening Observer 23 Nov. 2/1 We are living in a jazz age and I wonder if a jazz church ought not to be the next development. 1922 F. S. Fitzgerald (title) Tales of the jazz age. 1925 J. Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer iii. v. 391 This young woman..led away by the temptations of cruel and voracious men and the excitement and wickedness of what has been too well named, the jazz age. 1959 T. Griffith Waist-high Culture (1960) iii. 31 In the years between the Armistice and the stock-market crash, came the period we used to call..the Jazz Age. 1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. ii. 62 Married women, especially, had been invested with too many mundane responsibilities to enjoy the Jazz Age. < as lemmas |
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