0 a period of time, sometimes imaginary, when everyone was happy, or when a particular art, business, etc. was very successful:
1 a period of time in the past, sometimes imaginary, of great happiness and success:
the golden age of boxing
Instead of representing a golden age of universal popular religion, these urban festivals were often the focus of fierce political struggles.
It does not advocate reforms aimed at shoring up the unions' political position or at restoring a golden age of labor power that never was.
The notion of the eighteenth century as a 'golden age' for women and work has lost a good deal of credibility.
Underlying all this, looking back to a golden age, is the political agenda.
Indeed, liberalism was uniquely suited to this golden age of urban government in the decades before 1900.
They sought the golden age, but never knew where it might be found.
A distinctive pattern of domestic and kinship organization may have emerged during the ' golden age ' for the wealthier and more powerful strata.
The supposition that things are much harder today is a variant of a golden age fallacy.
