halcyon
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9.6
- adjective
- /ˈhælsiən/
- Literature
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idílico
- Many reminisce about the halcyon days of their youth, when life seemed carefree and joyful.
- the halcyon days
It's kind of a halcyon place to live in.
- It's kind of a halcyon place to live in.
- Those were the truly kind of last halcyon days of Hollywood.
Examples
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How many silent screams went unheard in those halcyon days filled with great beauty, joy, and thanksgiving?
Blog text (17) -
"What could I do but... love him?" In that halcyon spring, Luke was easy to love.
Fiction book (1990) -
In our halcyon days we were quite the club.
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Those were the halcyon days...
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Those were the truly kind of last halcyon days of Hollywood.
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Some say music education isn't what it was when they were in school; they describe halcyon times.
Academic text (1997) -
If you want a sense of those halcyon days, you had only to tune into Monday's Morning Edition on NPR.
Blog text (20) -
But really, it's just a yearning for that halcyon age when advertisers bought ads regardless of whether people actually looked at them.
Blog text (8) -
Alas, I remember the halcyon days of yore when Pima Co.
Blog text (30) -
Nothing traumatic had happened to her when she was growing up; there had been the tedium of school, the almost suffocating friendships youngsters seem to need, the usual wrangles and arguments, and the long, halcyon summer days spent at the lake.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
348
1.8
A very successful or lucky time in a person's life
23
6.6
A very pleasant, peaceful place or time that seems perfect
1
9.9
Very beautiful and peaceful like heaven
Antonyms
Compounds
How Peaceful
Surface Forms
Etymology
The adjective halcyon comes from the same Greek tale of Alcyone, where a bird brought a short time of 'calm' weather, so halcyon now means a calm, peaceful, or happy time, often in the past.