halcyon
prosperous; wealthy: halcyon times of peace.
of or relating to the halcyon or kingfisher.
a mythical bird, usually identified with the kingfisher, said to breed about the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea, and to have the power of charming winds and waves into calmness.
any of various kingfishers, especially of the genus Halcyon.
Halcyon, Classical Mythology. Alcyone (def. 2).
Origin of halcyon
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How to use halcyon in a sentence
Voters, many too young remember, were partly seduced by the 64-year-old’s misleading presentation of his late father’s dictatorial rule as a halcyon economic age to be revived.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s Vague Approach to the Philippine Economy Is Making Investors Nervous | Chad de Guzman / Manila | May 13, 2022 | TimeThe tracks take me back to my youth and to simpler days, a complete halcyon era.
Pandemic playlists: Songs (and podcasts) that got us through coronavirus lockdown | Seb Joseph | July 26, 2021 | DigidayBack in the halcyon pre-pandemic days of summer 2019, 69 percent of Americans said they planned to attend a barbecue to celebrate the Fourth of July according to a Monmouth University poll from June of that year.
It’s A ‘Shot Girl Summer.’ But America Is Still Not Fully Back To Normal. | Kaleigh Rogers | July 2, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightAs we start to see the possible glimmer of a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, another summer is nearly upon us in all its halcyon glory.
Now, The Lyle Hotel and Lyle’s evoke the former halcyon days as the Hotel Carlyle.
In retrospect, 2009 and 2010 were halcyon days in the Middle East, now that we seem just one horseman short of an apocalypse.
The halcyon days of Wolf, the third-wave feminist revolutionary and author of The Beauty Myth (1990), seem far, far away.
From ISIS to Ebola, What Has Made Naomi Wolf So Paranoid? | Michael Moynihan | October 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWithout a bribed official, a halcyon, or eagle, will watch the entry point with binoculars for patterns and opportunities.
The Devil’s Drug: The True Story of Meth in New Mexico | Nick Romeo | August 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe mixed-media collection evokes nostalgia for halcyon days through fragmented images of the past.
Karen Kilimnik’s Magical Fantasyland, From Ballet to Baroque | Claire Stern | March 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOn the Impossible Past will transport you back to your halcyon, angsty teenage years.
Best Music Albums of 2012: Frank Ocean, Taylor Swift, and More | Marlow Stern | December 26, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTRelatively, it touches those old times when religious houses, with their quaintly-trimmed orders, were in their halcyon days.
Our Churches and Chapels | AtticusAnd yet subsequent generations have viewed with unconcern this halcyon period in the history of art.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) | Richard MutherThis is the halcyon period of primers, introductions, handbooks, manuals.
The Contemporary Review, January 1883 | VariousDo you know the periods when the Mediterranean is troubled, and when the wintry halcyon days come?
The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) | Florence A. Thomas MarshallSleighing parties from Wheeling frequented this old tavern in the halcyon days of the road, and were handsomely entertained.
The Old Pike | Thomas B. Searight
British Dictionary definitions for halcyon
/ (ˈhælsɪən) /
peaceful, gentle, and calm
happy and carefree
Greek myth a fabulous bird associated with the winter solstice
a poetic name for the kingfisher
halcyon days
a fortnight of calm weather during the winter solstice
a period of peace and happiness
Origin of halcyon
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