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

The tale has been continuously retold, translated and adapted into various formats over nearly three millennia.

— Saba Hamedy, NBC news, 8 July 2026
Cassidy continued acting and recording throughout the '90s and into the new millennium while struggling with alcoholism.

— Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 6 July 2026

Definition of millennium

Noun

The river’s golden age began to fade around the turn of the 20th century.

— Camille Knight, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
The group helped define hip-hop’s golden age, became the first rap act inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and remains one of the genre’s most influential pioneers.

— Ernie Suggs, AJC.com, 3 July 2026

Definition of golden age

Noun

Since then, Reichardt has watched birds, flowers, a sea of green shrubs and baby conifers fill in the moonscape.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
Soho lofts and prewar buildings with smaller flowers in Lower Manhattan are both easier to deal with, Marvel said to CNN via email.

— Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 8 July 2026

Definition of flower

Noun

Design, decor, and dining pay homage to Vail founders Earl Eaton and Pete Seibert and the mountain’s 1960s heyday.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026
After working for other bad guys over the years, the Minions (all voiced by Coffin) accidentally end up in Hollywood in the 1920s as Tinseltown is in its silent movie heyday.

— Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

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