SILVER AGE Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

silver age

noun

Definition of silver age

as in millennium

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Recent Examples of silver age During that decade, Necaxa also had a silver age, winning three Mexican league titles. — Arturo Conde, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025 The silver age wrapped up with Walt Disney and his animators balancing the visual ambition of Fantasia with the storytelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. — Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024 To modern readers, the silver age comics of the early Marvel era may read as kind of hokey. — Joe George, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023 After its first five glorious years, the Lampoon had gradually transitioned to a silver age, and then to an age of progressively baser metals. — Benjamin Wallace, HWD, 1 May 2017

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Noun

India’s ambassador to Indonesia, Sandeep Chakravorty, said the Ramayana and the Mahabharata had been part of Indonesian temple culture, wayang (traditional puppet theater) and the popular imagination for over a millennium.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Oct. 2026
The result, in both its grace notes and its gestalt, freakishly summons the placeless, timeless, sunless anti-aesthetics of a turn-of-the-millennium strip-mall buffet.

— Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of millennium

Noun

There is flower-arrangement inspiration for all seasons, ways of bringing the wild outdoors in.

— Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026
After much hemming and hawing, Diplo selects an orange flower to purchase and posts a video to his Instagram stories in which the man holds up his shopping bag printed with a website for his wares.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026

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As seen in the clip above, the doc dives into the sport’s early heyday, starting in the early 1980s and continuing through the next decade.

— Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
During the Cowboys’ 1990s heyday, the cheerleaders made as little as $15 per game, according to The Dallas Morning News.

— Rob Wile, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026

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