SILVER AGES Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

silver ages

noun

plural of silver age

as in salad days

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dark ages

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millennia

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The butterflies have been making this migration for as long as 20 millennia, once finding paths to and from the fields gouged out by glaciers retreating with the spring during the last Ice Age.

— Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
Nearly three millennia after audiences first heard these stories, Nolan’s The Odyssey has huge expectations.

— Theodore McDarrah, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

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