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| Main Entry: | Jazz Age |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | the 1920s and thereabouts, characterized by freedom, exuberance, hedonism, etc. |
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Jazz Age
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Jazz Age
–noun
| the period that in the U.S. extended roughly from the Armistice of 1918 to the stock-market crash of 1929 and was notable for increased prosperity, liberated or hedonistic social behavior, Prohibition and the concomitant rise in production and consumption of bootleg liquor, and the development and dissemination of jazz and ragtime and associated ballroom dances. |
[Origin: 1920–25, Americanism
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] | Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. |
| jazz age | |
noun | |
| the 1920s in the United States characterized in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a period of wealth, youthful exuberance, and carefree hedonism |
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Jazz Age
The 1920s in the United States, a decade marked not only by the popularity of jazz, but also by attacks on convention in many areas of American life. (See flappers and Roaring Twenties.)
[Chapter:] American History since 1865
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