Jazz Age (Noun)
Meaning
The 1920s in the United States characterized in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a period of wealth, youthful exuberance, and carefree hedonism.
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
Examples
- The 1920s are often referred to as the Jazz Age, a time of liberation and extravagance in American history.
- During the Jazz Age, people gathered in secret bars to listen to live music and indulge in forbidden pleasures.
- The glamorous and lavish lifestyle of the wealthy elite in the Jazz Age was vividly captured in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels.
- Young people of the Jazz Age danced the Charleston and flappers bobbed their hair in defiance of traditional values.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald's portrayal of the Jazz Age continues to fascinate readers with its captivating descriptions of wealth and excess.