GOLDEN AGE Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

golden age

noun

Definition of golden age

as in renaissance

a period of high artistic or cultural development a memoir of her days as an actress in the golden age of Hollywood

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dark age

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Recent Examples of golden age In this golden age of cringe, that earlier art of transgression—with its tense silences, humiliations, and hostile disturbance of the performer-audience relationship—was channeled downstream. — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026 Nearly every single recipe from the Fizz’s golden age takes pains to specify that it should be made very cold, served without ice, and consumed immediately after delivery, an instruction that may seem pedantic but is nonetheless ubiquitous. — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2026 The golden age of detective fiction is generally considered to have been in the 1920s and ’30s. — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026 An increase that large would roughly double the sustainable economic growth rate worldwide, ushering in a golden age of prosperity at astonishing speed. — Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for golden age

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renaissance

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Yet from the golden age of the Bentley Boys to the marque’s current renaissance, the Supersports’ one constant is its role as the Flying B’s internal-combustion benchmark.

— Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2026
So is the dream of the Nineties animation boom, in which flying freak flags and previously untapped emotional frequencies helped fuel a renaissance.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2026

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