golden age

See also: Golden Age

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡəʊl.dən eɪd͡ʒ/

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• (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], archived from the original on 24 August 2012:

     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.

   • 2025 August 7, Jonathan Lemire, “Things Aren’t Going Donald Trump’s Way”, in The Atlantic‎^[2], archived from the original on 30 January 2026:

     That unprecedented act of petulance risks undermining Wall Street’s confidence in the economy and undercutting Trump’s campaign pledge to give the United States another economic “golden age.”

2. (mythology) The Golden Age.
   • 2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 75, number 1, page 16:

     But in a study of Sumerian and Akkadian sources, Chen has shown that, although the motif of a lost golden age is very old in Mesopotamian literature, its termination in a flood is securely attested only from the second millennium B.C.E.

Related terms

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

Translations

time of progress and achievement

• Arabic: عَصْر ذَهَبِيّ m (ʕaṣr ḏahabiyy)
• Bulgarian: златен век m (zlaten vek)
• 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 Greek: χρύσεον γένος n (khrúseon génos)

• Hebrew: תּוֹר הַזָּהָב m (tor hazaháv)
• Hindi: स्वर्ण युग m (svarṇ yug)
• Hungarian: aranykor (hu)
• Icelandic: gullöld (is) f
• Indonesian: zaman kejayaan
• Italian: età d'oro f, periodo d'oro m
• Japanese: 黄金時代 (ja) (ōgon jidai)
• Korean: 황금기(黃金期) (hwanggeumgi), 황금시대(黃金時代) (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 inan
• Portuguese: anos dourados m
• Romanian: epocă de aur f
• Russian: золото́й век (ru) m (zolotój vek)
• Spanish: edad de oro f, siglo de oro m, edad dorada f, época dorada f, siglo dorado m
• Swedish: guldålder (sv) c, storhetstid (sv) c
• Tamil: பொற்காலம் (ta) (poṟkālam)
• Turkish: altın çağ (tr)
• Vietnamese: thời hoàng kim

Further reading

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