SILVER AGE Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

silver age

noun

Definition of silver age

as in millennium

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dark age

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Recent Examples of silver age During that decade, Necaxa also had a silver age, winning three Mexican league titles. — Arturo Conde, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025 The silver age wrapped up with Walt Disney and his animators balancing the visual ambition of Fantasia with the storytelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. — Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024 To modern readers, the silver age comics of the early Marvel era may read as kind of hokey. — Joe George, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023 After its first five glorious years, the Lampoon had gradually transitioned to a silver age, and then to an age of progressively baser metals. — Benjamin Wallace, HWD, 1 May 2017

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Noun

But those roots, for the most part, were rent for most of two millennia, with only a couple of thousand Jews in all of Palestine at the opening of the 18th century.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 4 Oct. 2026
Over the last half millennium, societies around the globe competed to divide up the world’s land.

— Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of millennium

Noun

The period is 2006, when the golden age of streamable content is barely a speck on the media horizon.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026
There are plenty of scientists, industry researchers, and executives who believe the risks are overblown, and the technology is the way toward a new golden age.

— Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of golden age

Noun

Farmers from nearby towns bring in produce and flowers each week, much of it selling out by mid-morning.

— Nikkita Nair, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
Tourism picks up Whether arriving from within Chile or overseas, tourists are venturing into the remote, inhospitable areas of the Atacama to admire the millions of flowers adorning vast areas of the desert, stretching from the coast to the horizon.

— Nayara Batschke, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of flower

Noun

Guests Adriana Lima, Honey Dijon, Soo Joo Park and Cindy Bruna were also dressed in vintage Donna Karan, appearing in an assortment of slip dresses, column silhouettes and other pieces from the brand’s heyday.

— Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2026
In its heyday in the 1970s, the site produced about 1,600 barrels of oil per day.

— Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026

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