Golden age Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a time period when some activity or skill was at its peak
    • it was the golden age of cinema
  2. noun any period (sometimes imaginary) of great peace and prosperity and happiness
  3. noun (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

WordNet

Definitions
  1. . (a) The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of manners in rural employments, followed by the silver, bronze, and iron ages. Dryden. (b) (Roman Literature) The best part (B. C. 81 A. D. 14) of the classical period of Latinity; the time when Cicero, Cæsar, Virgil, etc., wrote . Hence: (c) That period in the history of a literature, etc., when it flourishes in its greatest purity or attains its greatest glory; as, the Elizabethan age has been considered the golden age of English literature.

Webster 1913