golden years

1. 1.

   the time of life after retirement from active work

   Broadertime of life

Questions about golden years

What does golden years mean?

golden years means "the time of life after retirement from active work".

Is golden years a common word?

golden years is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.