the most flourishing period in the history of a nation, literature, etc.
2.
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.
3.
(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.
the period in life after middle age, traditionally characterized by wisdom, contentment, and useful leisure.
5.
the age at which a person normally retires.
Origin
1545-55
Examples from the web for golden age
The thirteenth century is, emphatically, the golden age of the monastic historians.
He is in many ways a throwback to the golden age of the gentleman explorer, one of the last of that peripatetic breed.
Dozier began work as a screenwriter during the golden age of television.
It was a period of peace and prosperity, the kingdom's golden age.
All this sounds as though a golden age for universities has arrived.
But there was no golden age of co-operation, whatever some retired mafiosos might now say.
Their wider availability makes sense in an era that might well turn out to be a golden age of short-form moviemaking.
Whatever nostalgists think, there was never a golden age when students did all their work and attended every lecture.
British Dictionary definitions for golden age
golden age
noun
1.
(classical myth) the first and best age of mankind, when existence was happy, prosperous, and innocent
2.
the most flourishing and outstanding period, esp in the history of an art or nation: the golden age of poetry
3.
the great classical period of Latin literature, occupying approximately the 1st century bc and represented by such writers as Cicero and Virgil
Idioms and Phrases with golden age
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.