golden age

golden age

See also: Golden Age

English

Etymology

From golden and age.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡəʊl.dən eɪd͡ʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡoʊl.dən eɪd͡ʒ/

Noun

golden age (plural golden ages)

1. (idiomatic) A period of happiness, peace, prosperity, and/or great progress.
   • 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     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.

2. (mythology) The Golden Age.

Related terms

• golden years
• Gilded Age

Translations

time of progress and achievement

Arabic: عَصْر ذَهَبِيّ‎ m (ʿaṣr ḏahabiyy) Chinese: Mandarin: 黃金時代／黄金时代 (zh) (huángjīn shídài) Danish: guldalder c Dutch: gouden eeuw (nl) m or f Esperanto: orepoko Finnish: kulta-aika (fi) French: âge d'or (fr) m German: goldenes Zeitalter n Greek: χρυσή εποχή f (chrysí epochí) Ancient: χρύσεον γένος n (khrúseon génos) Hungarian: aranykor (hu) Icelandic: gullöld (is) f Indonesian: zaman kejayaan Italian: età d'oro f, periodo d'oro m Japanese: 黄金時代 (ōgon jidai) Korean: 황금시대 (hwanggeumsidae) Latin: aetas aurea f Norwegian: Bokmål: gullalder m, storhetstid m or f Nynorsk: gullalder m, stordomstid f Persian: دوران طلایی‎, عصر طلایی‎, عصر شکوفایی‎ Polish: złoty wiek m Portuguese: anos dourados m Romanian: epocă de aur f Russian: золотой век (ru) m (zolotoj vek) Spanish: edad de oro f, siglo de oro m, edad dorada f, época dorada f Swedish: guldålder (sv) c, storhetstid (sv) c

Further reading

• Golden Age on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Golden Age (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia