golden age

See also: Golden Age

English

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 great progress.

   Synonym: golden era

   Coordinate term: silver age

   • 1951 March, John W. Cline, “The Future of Medicine”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 3, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 165:

     The first half of this century has been referred to as the golden age of medicine. To me it seems more probable that we are on the threshold of a much greater age.

   • 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     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

• Gilded Age
• golden anniversary
• golden oldie
• golden time
• golden years

 

Translations

time of progress and achievement

• Arabic: عَصْر ذَهَبِيّ m (ʕaṣr 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
• Georgian: ოქროს ხანა (okros xana)
• 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
• Vietnamese: thời hoàng kim

Further reading

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