golden age

A period of or defined by outstanding excellence, quality, prosperity, or achievement. This Halloween, we're having a marathon of all the monster movies from the golden age of cinema. Many people look back on the 1950s as some kind of golden age, completely ignoring or denying many of the deep-rooted social injustices that typified that time in America.

golden age

A period of prosperity or excellent achievement, as in Some consider the baroque period the golden age of choral music. The expression dates from the mid-1500s, when it was first applied to a period of classical Latin poetry.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Midhat	-	Arabic
Myung	myung	Korean
Thoukydides	-	Ancient Greek
Terri	TER-ee	English
Staffan	-	Swedish
Andrija	-	Croatian, Serbian