halcyon days
/ˈhælsiən deɪz/
halcyon days noun: a period of calm during the winter, when storms do not occur.
Noun
halcyon days pl (normally plural, singular halcyon day)
halcyon days meaning in Vietnamese
halcyon days in Vietnamese
- halcyon days
- những ngày thanh bình
Examples of halcyon days in a sentence
- And, by the way, during those halcyon days (the halcyon was there, too, chattering above every creek, as he is all over the world) we fought another battle.c. 1880, Ambrose Bierce, On a Mountain:
- Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all! / The brooding and blissful halcyon days!1891, Walt Whitman, “Halcyon Days”, in Leaves of Grass:
- Back in the halcyon days of 1997, a proposal was made for encoding the “pIqaD” characters used for writing Klingon (XIFAN HOL).2016, Mark Shoulson, “pIqaD (Klingon) and its Usage”, in Unicode, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2021, page 1:
Forms of halcyon days
| singular | halcyon day |
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Origin of halcyon days
From halcyon, from Latin Alcyone, from Ancient Greek Ἀλκυόνη (Alkuónē), daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx. When her husband died in a shipwreck, Alcyone threw herself into the sea whereupon the gods transformed them both into halcyon birds (kingfishers). When Alcyone made her nest on the beach, waves threatened to destroy it. Aeolus restrained his winds and kept them calm during seven days in each year, so she could lay her eggs. These became known as the "halcyon days," when storms do not occur. Today, the term is used to denote a past period that is being remembered for being happy or successful.
Questions about halcyon days
- What does halcyon days mean?
- Halcyon days means a period of calm during the winter, when storms do not occur.
- What is halcyon days in Vietnamese?
- Halcyon days in Vietnamese is những ngày thanh bình. See Halcyon days meaning in Vietnamese.
- How do you use halcyon days in a sentence?
- And, by the way, during those halcyon days (the halcyon was there, too, chattering above every creek, as he is all over the world) we fought another battle.
- What part of speech is halcyon days?
- Halcyon days is a noun.
- How do you pronounce halcyon days?
- Halcyon days is pronounced /ˈhælsiən deɪz/.
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