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.

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Meanings

proper nounthe Jazz Age
  1. historicalA 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

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

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APA

Jazz Age. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jazz%20Age

MLA

“Jazz Age.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jazz%20Age. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Jazz Age,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jazz%20Age.

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