English Explanatory Dictionary

Jazz Age

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States.

Word forms

Jazz Age the Jazz Age

Etymology

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

Related words

Roaring Twenties
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