Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

jazz age

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English

Syllables: jaz-z age
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

the Jazz Age (canonical)

Phrases

Roaring Twenties

Frequently Paired Words

Roaring Twenties

Questions

What does jazz age mean?: A period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States.
Where does jazz age come from?: Popularized by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Tales of the Jazz Age (1922).

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