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

Founded in Seattle in 1999, on the cusp of Y2K and a new millennium, the jeweler was among the first to take diamond shopping online.

— Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2026
The first decade of the new millennium saw the release of the Carrera GT, a car viewed by some as one of the last great analog performance vehicles.

— Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of millennium

Noun

In this golden age of cringe, that earlier art of transgression—with its tense silences, humiliations, and hostile disturbance of the performer-audience relationship—was channeled downstream.

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
The golden age of detective fiction is generally considered to have been in the 1920s and ’30s.

— New York Times, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of golden age

Noun

There is flower-arrangement inspiration for all seasons, ways of bringing the wild outdoors in.

— Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026
After much hemming and hawing, Diplo selects an orange flower to purchase and posts a video to his Instagram stories in which the man holds up his shopping bag printed with a website for his wares.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of flower

Noun

And back in the heyday of Fred Bear and other pioneers of modern bowhunting, climbing a tree to hunt from a stand was hardly a common practice.

— Colin Moore, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
Most planetary scientists will tell you the heyday of Venus exploration was more than a generation ago.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026

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