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golden age

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golden age
n.
1. A period of great peace, prosperity, and happiness.
2. Greek & Roman Mythology The first age of the world, an untroubled and prosperous era during which people lived in ideal happiness.

golden age
n
1. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Classical myth the first and best age of mankind, when existence was happy, prosperous, and innocent
2. the most flourishing and outstanding period, esp in the history of an art or nation the golden age of poetry
3. (Literary & Literary Critical Movements) the great classical period of Latin literature, occupying approximately the 1st century bc and represented by such writers as Cicero and Virgil
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.golden agegolden age - a time period when some activity or skill was at its peak; "it was the golden age of cinema"
efflorescence, flush, heyday, peak, prime, blossom, flower, bloom - the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
2.golden age - any period (sometimes imaginary) of great peace and prosperity and happiness
historic period, age - an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age"
3.Golden Age - (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
classical mythology - the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greeks
period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
Translations
golden age netà f inv d'oro
golden age netà f inv d'oro


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[*] This was the true aera of the golden age, and the only golden age which ever had any existence, unless in the warm imaginations of the poets, from the expulsion from Eden down to this day.
When the first poet or romancer told these marvellous legends (such is Eustace Bright's opinion), it was still the Golden Age.
Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political conduct that we, as well as the other inhabitants of the globe, are yet remote from the happy empire of perfect wisdom and perfect virtue?
 
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