- the most flourishing period in the history of a nation, literature, etc.
- the first and best of the four ages of humankind; an era of peace and innocence that finally yielded to the silver age.
- a period in Latin literature, 70 b.c. to a.d. 14, in which Cicero, Catullus, Horace, Vergil, Ovid, and others wrote; the first phase of Classical Latin.
- the period in life after middle age, traditionally characterized by wisdom, contentment, and useful leisure.
- the age at which a person normally retires.
- the first and best age of mankind, when existence was happy, prosperous, and innocent
- the most flourishing and outstanding period, esp in the history of an art or nation
- the great classical period of Latin literature, occupying approximately the 1st century bc and represented by such writers as Cicero and Virgil
