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Jazz Age

Jazz Age proper noun: a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States.

Proper noun

the Jazz Age

  1. (historical) A period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States.
    • This is a story that has it all[:] a Jazz Age background, a pleasure-loving president surrounded by booze and chorus girls, boomtown capitalists from the Wild West, conniving politicians, mysterious suicides and a glamorous star witness named Roxy.2008 February 13, William Grimes, “There Will Be Scandal: An Oil Stain on the Jazz Age”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Origin of Jazz Age

Popularized by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Tales of the Jazz Age (1922).

Questions about Jazz Age

What does Jazz Age mean?
Jazz Age means a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States.
What part of speech is Jazz Age?
Jazz Age is a proper noun.

Words near Jazz Age in the dictionary

  1. Jazmin
  2. Jazmine
  3. jazy
  4. Jazyges
  5. jazz
  6. Jazz Age
  7. jazz around
  8. jazz band
  9. jazz bands
  10. jazz bow
  11. jazz bows

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