Heyday
['heɪdeɪ] or ['hede]
Definition
(interj.) An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.
(n.) The time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Frolic, play, exultation.
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Examples
- She has beauty still, and if it be not in its heyday, it is not yet in its autumn. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She expected Mr. Rushworth, but it was Julia, who, hot and out of breath, and with a look of disappointment, cried out on seeing her, Heyday! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Nor were the ?sthetic claims of Latin neglected in this heyday of Greek erudition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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