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Definition: Golden Age |
Golden AgeNoun1. (classical mythology) the first and best age of the world, a time of ideal happiness, prosperity, and innocence; by extension, any flourishing and outstanding period. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Golden Age The best age; as the golden age of innocence, the golden age of literature. Chronologers divide the time between Creation and the birth of Christ into ages; Hesiod describes five, and Lord Byron adds a sixth, "The Age of Bronze." (See Age, Augustan.) I. The Golden Age of Ancient Nations: (1) NEW ASSYRIAN EMPIRE. From the reign of Esar-haddon or Assur Adon (Assyria's prince), third son of Sennacherib, to the end of Sarac's reign (B.C. 691-606). (2) CHALDÆO - BABYLONIAN EMPIRE. From the reign of Nabopolassar or Nebo-pul-Assur (Nebo the great Assyrian) to that of Belshazzar or Bel-shah-Assur (Bel king-of Assyria) (B.C. 606-538). (3) CHINA. The Tang dynasty (626-684), and especially the reign of Tae-tsong (618-626). (4) EGYPT. The reigns of Sethos I. and Rameses II. (B.C. 1336-1224). (5) MEDIA. The reign of Cyaxares or Kai-ax-Arës (the-king son-of "Mars") (B.C. 634-594). (6) PERSIA. The reigns of Khosru I., and II. (531-628). Ii. The Golden Age of Modern Nations. (1) ENGLAND. The reign of Elizabeth (1558-1603). (2) FRANCE. Part of the reigns of Louis XIV. and XV. (1640-1740). (3) GERMANY. The reign of Charles V. (1519-1558). (4) PORTUGAL. From John I. to the close of Sebastian's reign (1383-1578). In 1580 the crown was seized by Felipe II. of Spain. (5) PRUSSIA. The reign of Frederick the Great (1740-1780). (6) RUSSIA. The reign of Czar Peter the Great (1672-1725). (7) SPAIN. The reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, when the crowns of Castile and Aragon were united (1474-1516) (8) SWEDEN. From Gustavus Vasa to the close of the reign of Gustavus Adolphus (1523-1632). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Within sequences or cycles of eras, the golden age stands alongside the silver age and the iron age, and conditions can improve or decline according to one's conception of mythic progression.
Common Golden ages include:
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Pleasure | Honeymoon; palmy days, halcyon days; golden age, golden time; Dixie, Dixie's land; Saturnia regna, Arcadia, Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone. |
Prosperity | Saturnia regna, Saturnian age; golden time, golden age; bed of roses, fat city; fat of the land, milk and honey, loaves and fishes. |
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Crosswords: Golden Age |
| English words defined with "Golden Age": Age of gold, Augustan age ♦ Saturnian, silver age ♦ Tuatha De, Tuatha De Danann. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Golden Age": Astræa ♦ PERICLES ♦ tail ♦ Youth. (references) |
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Screenplays | Now they tell me that it was The Golden Age of Broadway, but when you're that involved with it, you don't know you're in The Golden Age. (Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There; writing credit: Rick McKay) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Golden Age (1959) This Is America: Sports' Golden Age (1948) By the Legends Who Were There Broadway: The Golden Age (2003) Hail Sid Caesar! The Golden Age of Comedy (2001) The Golden Age of the Piano (1993) | |
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Novalis | Where children are, there is the golden age. |
St. Simon | The golden age is before us, not behind us. |
Virgil | The great cycle of the ages is renewed. Now the Maiden returns, returns the Golden Age; a new generation now descends from heaven. |
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John Locke | 1690 | But though the golden age (before vain ambition, and amor sceleratus habendi, evil concupiscence, had corrupted men's minds into a mistake of true power and honour) had more virtue, and consequently better governors, as well as less vicious subjects, and there was then no stretching prerogative on the one side, to oppress the people; nor consequently on the other, any dispute about privilege, to lessen or restrain the power of the magistrate,* and so no contest betwixt rulers and people about governors or goveernment: yet, when ambition and luxury in future ages would retain and increase the power, without doing the business for which it was given; and aided by flattery, taught princes to have distinct and separate interests from their people, men found it necessary to examine more carefully the original and rights of government; and to find out ways to restrain the exorbitances, and prevent the abuses of that power, which they having intrusted in another's hands only for their own good, they found was made use of to hurt them. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Economic History | India | During this period, known as India's Golden Age, Hindu culture and political administration reached new heights. (references) |
Ireland | This golden age of culture was interrupted by 200 years of intermittent warfare with waves of Viking raiders who plundered monasteries and towns. (references) | |
Georgia | After 11 centuries of mixed fortunes of various Georgian kingdoms, including a golden age from the 11th to 12th centuries, Georgia turned to Russia for protection. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was. This tendency is most observable in the female of the species, in whom the ancestral sense is strong and persistent. The tailed men described by Lord Monboddo are now generally regarded as a product of an imagination unusually susceptible to influences generated in the golden age of our pithecan past. |
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Expressions using "Golden Age": the golden age ♦ The Old Testament in the Paintings of the Golden Age. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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the golden age | 130 |
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golden age of radio | 29 |
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the golden age of hollywood | 12 |
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the golden age of athens | 10 |
the golden age of islam | 8 |
golden age of television | 5 |
the golden age of superman | 5 |
the golden age of batman | 5 |
the golden age of spain | 5 |
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the golden age of jazz | 3 |
golden age of comedy | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Golden Age"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عصر ذهبي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zlatý vìk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Het Oude Testament in de Schilderkunst van de Gouden Eeuw (The Old Testament in the Paintings of the Golden Age). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | loistokausi (flourishing period, heyday), kulta-aika. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | goldenes zeitalter, hochzeit (bridal, marriage, nuptials, wedding, wedding-feast, wedding-party), hochblüte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χρυσόσ αιώνασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | aranykor (heyday). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 最盛期 (best time for). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | おう""じ い, ぜ"せいじ い, ぜ"せいき (ancient times, heyday, last century), さいせいき (best time for), ゴールデンエージ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oldengay ageay vârstã de aur (the golden age). (various references) золотой век (millennium). (various references) siglo de oro (golden epoch), edad dorada, edad de oro. (various references) guldålder, glanstid (day, days, heyday), glansperiod (heyday). (various references) huzur ve mutluluk dönemi, altın çağ (halcyon days, heyday, saturnian age). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-g-l-n-o" | |
-2 letters: agelong, angeled, engaged, gleaned. | |
-3 letters: aneled, angled, daggle, dangle, degage, dogleg, dongle, elodea, engage, ganged, gaoled, goaled, golden, gonged, lagend, lagged, leaden, leaned, legend, legged, legong, loaned, logged, longed, nagged, nogged. | |
-4 letters: agene, aglee, agone, alone, along, anele, angel, angle, anode, anole, donee, donga, eagle, egged, eland, gaged, genoa, geode, glade, gland, glean. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-g-g-l-n-o" | |
+3 letters: degringolade, doppelganger. | |
+4 letters: degringolades, doppelgangers. | |
+5 letters: snaggletoothed. | |
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