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

At the start of the new millennium, its then-current steward sent the vehicle back to Zagato for a comprehensive restoration.

— Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 19 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

Definition of millennium

Noun

Asked about the perception of a golden age of Hindi cinema in the 1980s and ’90s, Khan pointed further back.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 July 2026
This era also marked the start of what many consider the golden age of local children’s television, which ran through the mid-1970s.

— Jared Bahir Browsh, The Conversation, 15 July 2026

Definition of golden age

Noun

On Wednesday evening, people gathered at the site where the man was shot to hold a vigil with flowers and candles.

— Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 23 July 2026
So breeders have relied on hybridization, crossing the American chestnut with the naturally resistant Asian chestnut by putting pollen from one into the flowers of the other.

— Steve Strauss, The Conversation, 22 July 2026

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Noun

In its heyday during the 7th and 8th centuries, Calakmul was the most powerful kingdom in the Maya world and notable for its artistic and architectural innovations.

— Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2026
In the heyday of the 1960s and ‘70s, the world’s oceans were sprinkled with hundreds of undersea habitats.

— Alex Harris July 15, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026

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