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heyday

ˈheɪˌdeɪ
WordNet
  1. (n) heyday
    the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Heyday
    An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.
  2. Heyday
    The time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness. "The heyday in the blood is tame.", "In the heyday of their victories."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. heyday
    An exclamation of cheerfulness, surprise, wonder, etc.
  2. (n) heyday
    Highest vigor; full strength; acme.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (interj) Heyday
    expressive of frolic, exultation, or wonder
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. G. heida, or hei da, D. hei daar,. Cf. Hey, and There

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Imit.

Usage in the news

Deftones evolves into heavy remnant of heyday with'Koi. centredaily.com

Major news stations across the country are having a heyday with beef these days. beefmagazine.com

Jaclyn Smith Remembers the Heavenly Heyday of "Charlie's Angels". nbcsandiego.com

FORT LEE, NJ — While the Fort Lee School District might only boast 18 custodians, down from nearly 50 in its heyday, those that remain are still an intricate part of the education process, according to the Fort Lee Patch. cmmonline.com

The Archers in their indie heyday. seattleweekly.com

Here's a pictorial look back at the heyday of the Fab Four. vancouversun.com

The account of Marvel 's early '60s heyday, when Lee and nascent legend Jack Kirby whipped up the bulk of Marvel 's biggest names, feels sunny and full of promise. denverpost.com

Last- mile 's media heyday was strongly linked to the dotcom bubble. areadevelopment.com

Sihanouk's son, the current King Norodom Sihamoni, presides over an institution that is far less relevant or powerful than it was in his father's heyday. globalpost.com

Purportedly "the most trusted person in America" during his heyday in the 1960s and '70s, Cronkite personified journalistic influence as a stabilizing force in American public life. dallasnews.com

Even during their heyday in the early 80s, Philadelphia band the Stick Men were pretty obscure, and the past three decades have only made matters worse—which really saddens me. chicagoreader.com

PAM GRIER IN HER FILM HEYDAY. fwweekly.com

Giving editorial guidance to Mary Gherty and Kim Heyday. hudsonstarobserver.com

The heyday of Somali piracy may be over, recent ransom figures show. innipegfreepress.com

During the postwar heyday of physics, C.P. aaai.org

Usage in scientific papers

During the heyday of logical empiricism, many influential people denied that distinct and incompatible but empirically equivalent theories existed [Glymour, 1970].
Empirical Equivalence, Artificial Gauge Freedom and a Generalized Kretschmann Objection

There is a salutary warning from the history of British Emergentists, who had their heyday in the early 1920s — Brian McLaughlin’s book.64 The notion of emergence has been found to be a useful concept from at least the time of John Stuart Mill, back in the nineteenth century.
Definability in the Real Universe

Of course the British emergentists experienced their heyday before the great quantum discoveries of the late 1920s, and as described in McLaughlin,64 this was in a sense their undoing.
Definability in the Real Universe

Improvement of physics teaching in the heyday of the 1960’s.
Lessons From the Physics-Education Reform Effort

Historically, a low-energy theorem (LET) for the electric dipole amplitude was derived in the heydays of current algebra under certain analyticity (smoothness) assumptions [108, 109].
Chiral perturbation theory

Usage in literature

In its heyday Brambletye must have been a very fine place. "Highways & Byways in Sussex" by E.V. Lucas

In his heyday he had a small estate, which he had spent like a gentleman, by mixing with the gay world. "St. Ronan's Well" by Sir Walter Scott

It was the heyday of the Ten Pound Householder and the Middle Class Franchise. "Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography" by George William Erskine Russell

The strategic importance of Antibes during the heyday of the Bourbon Empire is attested by the Vauban fortifications. "Riviera Towns" by Herbert Adams Gibbons

Only in experience of the frivolities of existence was he deficient, his education there having been cut off in its heyday. "The Genius" by Margaret Horton Potter

Very much so, to be beating a poor woman, and me, a slave, who didn't dare strike him in return; heyday! "The Comedies of Terence" by Publius Terentius Afer, (AKA) Terence

In 1817 the Laocoon was in the heyday of its fame, and was regarded as the supreme achievement of ancient art. "The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2" by George Gordon Byron

Centuries of anguish have flooded through my bosom, even in the heyday of existence. "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847" by Various

Any woman can keep a house or manage a babe: heyday, can she so? "Joyce Morrell's Harvest" by Emily Sarah Holt

Then they are in the heyday of blackbird life. "Birds of the Rockies" by Leander Sylvester Keyser

Usage in poetry
Learn this—that philosophy beats
Sure time with the pulse,—quick or slow
As the blood from the heyday retreats,—
But it cannot make gods of us—No!
Make the best of all things,--
That is Wisdom's word;
In the day of small things
Is its comfort heard,--
And its blessing soothes not less
Any heyday of success.