HALCYON DAYS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Halcyon Days A time of happiness and prosperity. Halcyon is the Greek for a kingfisher, compounded of hals (the sea) and kuo (to brood on). The ancient Sicilians believed that the kingfisher laid its eggs and incubated for fourteen days, before the winter solstice, on the surface of the sea, during which time the waves of the sea were always unruffled. "Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be As halcyon brooding on a winter's sea." Dryden. "The peaceful kingfishers are met together About the deck, and prophesie calm weather." Wild: Iter Borealë. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms within Context: HALCYON DAYS

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Pleasure	Honeymoon; palmy days, halcyon days; golden age, golden time; Dixie, Dixie's land; Saturnia regna, Arcadia, Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone.
Prosperity	Luck; good luck, run of luck; sunshine; fair weather, fair wind; palmy days, bright days, halcyon days; piping times, tide, flood, high tide.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Commercial Usage: HALCYON DAYS

Domain	Title
Books	Baltimore's Halcyon Days (reference) Halcyon Days (reference) Tales of a tent : a remarkable diary of camping holidays in Lakeland in the halcyon days before the First World War (reference) (more book examples)
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Modern Translation: HALCYON DAYS

Language		Translations for "HALCYON DAYS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		спокойни дни, щастливи дни, тихи дни. (various references)

Czech		staré zlaté èasy (the good old days). (various references)

German		glückliche Zeit. (various references)

Greek		αλκυονίδεσ ημέρεσ. (various references)

Hungarian		szép idők, boldog szép napok. (various references)

Manx		meein (bland, clement, fine, gentle, pet, silky, smooth, soft, tame not wild; assuage pain; small ground, tame; assuage; small ground), laghyn kiuney, kiune (calm, composed, flat, pacific, quiescent, serene, still, tranquil). (various references)

Pig Latin		alcyonhay aysday

Romanian		zile liniştite, zile fericite. (various references)

Russian		безмятежные дни. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vedri dani. (various references)

Swedish		sötebrödsdagar, lycklig tid. (various references)

Turkish		rahat ve huzurlu günler, kışdönümündeki ondört günlük durgun havalı süre, altın çağ (golden age, heyday, saturnian age). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: HALCYON DAYS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-h-l-n-o-s-y-y"
	-3 letters: halcyons, holydays.
	-4 letters: calando, canolas, halcyon, holyday, lochans, scalado, scandal, synodal.
	-5 letters: aholds, alands, alohas, anodal, ashcan, calash, canals, canola, choana, coalas, dachas, hondas, lochan, nachas, nachos, nyalas, sandal, shandy, shoaly, soland, soldan.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-h-l-n-o-s-y-y"
	+3 letters: psychoanalyzed.
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A mute memorial of the Halcyon days of historic Monterey, California. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Specialty Definition: HALCYON DAYS