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Definition of Golden years
1. Noun. The time of life after retirement from active work.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Golden Years
Literary usage of Golden years
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs and Lyrics by Charles Welsh (1907)
"TWENTY golden years AGO OH, the rain, the weary, dreary rain, ... 'twas rarely
I beheld it flow In the tavern where I loved to sup Twenty golden years ago ! ..."
2. The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics by Mass Boston Cooking School (Boston, Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.) (1914)
"The golden years By Eleanor Robbins Wilson AROUSED by the friendly touch of
modernity, the present-day Sleeping Beauty has awakened and we who are beginning ..."
3. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1840)
"'twas rarely I beheld it flow In the taverns where I loved to sup Twenty golden
years ago ! Twenty years ago, alas ! but stay— Come, here goes to burn ..."
4. The Popular Poets and Poetry of Ireland: And Choice Selections in Prose from by Richard Nagle (1887)
"'twas rarely I beheld it flow In the tavern where I loved to sup Twenty golden
years ago ! Twenty years ago, alas ! —-but stay — On my life, 'tis half-past ..."
5. Barbara's history by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (1864)
"For my own part, in the golden years that have gone by since these times of which
I have been writing, I can add nothing. Great happiness, like deep grief, ..."
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