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GOLDEN YEARS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does golden years mean?
• GOLDEN YEARS (noun)
The noun GOLDEN YEARS has 1 sense:
1. the time of life after retirement from active work
Familiarity information: GOLDEN YEARS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The time of life after retirement from active work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("golden years" is a kind of...):
time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)
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