golden ageWord OriginSee more synonyms on Thesaurus.com noun the most flourishing period in the history of a nation, literature, etc.Classical Mythology. the first and best of the four ages of humankind; an era of peace and innocence that finally yielded to the silver age.(usually initial capital letters) a period in Latin literature, 70 b.c. to a.d. 14, in which Cicero, Catullus, Horace, Vergil, Ovid, and others wrote; the first phase of classical Latin.Compare silver age(def 2).
