golden years

plural noun

: the advanced years in a lifetime
active well into their golden years

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The Golden Bachelor celebrates finding love in your golden years — but the new star isn’t interested in dating anyone his own age. Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 26 June 2025 During Fred Smith’s golden years, art inexplicably began to pour out of him. Paul Nicolaus, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025 But while owners often hope to finance their golden years by selling their companies, only 20% of small businesses are ready for sale even in good times, according to the Exit Planning Institute. Nancy Forster-Holt, The Conversation, 23 June 2025 The golden years bring with them their own set of joys and sorrows, positives and negatives, surprises, both good and not so, and a myriad of issues and decisions attendant thereto that many of us paid absolutely no heed when told by our folks what the final frontier has in store for us. Oc Register, 22 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for golden years

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of golden years was in 1945

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“Golden years.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/golden%20years. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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