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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024gold′en age′, - the most flourishing period in the history of a nation, literature, etc.
- Mythology[Class. Myth.]the first and best of the four ages of humankind;
an era of peace and innocence that finally yielded to the silver age. - Literature(usually caps.) a period in Latin literature, 70 b.c. to a.d. 14, in which Cicero, Catullus, Horace, Vergil, Ovid, and others wrote;
the first phase of classical Latin. Cf. silver age (def. 2). - the period in life after middle age, traditionally characterized by wisdom, contentment, and useful leisure.
- the age at which a person normally retires.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: golden age n - the first and best age of mankind, when existence was happy, prosperous, and innocent
- the most flourishing and outstanding period, esp in the history of an art or nation: the golden age of poetry
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