Golden Age Gilt

Golden Age

The term Golden Age comes from Greek mythology, particularly the Works and Days of Hesiod, and is part of the description of temporal decline of the state of peoples through five Ages, Gold being the first and the one during which the Golden Race of humanity lived. After the end of the first age was the Silver, then the Bronze, after this the Heroic age, with the fifth and current age being Iron.

Gold (color)

Gold, also called golden, is a color tone resembling the chemical element gold.

golden

Adjective

1. Made of, or relating to, gold.
2. Having a color or other richness suggestive of gold.

Noun

1. (Can we verify this sense?) brassy drummer, brassy chub, etc. (Kyphosus vaigiensis), a fish found in southeast Asia.
2. Ellipsis of golden retriever.

age

Symbol

1. ISO 639-3 language code for Angal.

Noun

1. The amount of time that some being has been alive, or that some thing has been in existence, as measured from its birth or origin until the present or until some other given reference point. (Often measured in number of years; alternatively in months, days, hours, etc.; see also the usage notes)
2. The state of being old; the latter part of life.

gilt

Noun

1. Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.

Adjective

1. Golden coloured; gilded.