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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sil′ver age′, - Mythology[Class. Myth.]the second of the four ages of humankind, inferior to the golden age but superior to the bronze age that followed: characterized by an increase of impiety and of human weakness.
- Literature(usually caps.) a period in Latin literature,a.d.c14–138, following the Augustan Age: the second phase of classical Latin. Cf. golden age (def. 3).
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: silver age n - (in Greek and Roman mythology) the second of the world's major epochs, inferior to the preceding golden age and characterized by opulence and irreligion
- the postclassical period of Latin literature, occupying the early part of the Roman imperial era, characterized by an overindulgence in elegance for its own sake and empty scholarly rhetoric
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