SILVER AGE Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

silver age

noun

Definition of silver age

as in millennium

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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

That’s the upshot of a recent study aimed at revealing how the genetics of human olfaction has changed over the past few millennia.

— Willow Zhang, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2026
Other key events took place after the turn to the new millennium, including Charlotte Black Gay Pride holding its first event in July 2005, and Charlotte Pride disbanding in 2006.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of millennium

Noun

What a genuine new golden age would require A true golden age of American science would not simply preserve the status quo.

— H. Christopher Frey, The Conversation, 7 Aug. 2026
During California’s golden age of motoring, one Central Coast stop forever changed the American road trip.

— Dana Sauchelli, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of golden age

Noun

Shortly after returning to California, the Duchess of Sussex allegedly posted a photo of Harry and their two kids, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, carrying flowers to Diana’s grave.

— Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 12 Aug. 2026
Evokes an image of a colorful flower field filled with white, yellow, orange, and other vibrant flowers.

— Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of flower

Noun

For Alexander, that’s been something of a de facto mantra over the past three decades as New Radicals have endured well beyond their heyday.

— Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
The restoration of beautiful old buildings such as this one—built in 1906 by Sir Thomas Gresham as the Hungarian headquarters of his insurance company—has revived a sense of the city in its heyday.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026

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