See heyday on Wiktionary
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"word": "Blütezeit"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a period of success, popularity or power",
"word": "fénykor"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a period of success, popularity or power",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "auge"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "zenseiki",
"sense": "a period of success, popularity or power",
"word": "全盛期"
},
{
"code": "gv",
"lang": "Manx",
"sense": "a period of success, popularity or power",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ard-laa"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "a period of success, popularity or power",
"word": "poutūmārōtanga"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "a period of success, popularity or power",
"word": "glansperiode"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a period of success, popularity or power",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "auge"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rascvét",
"sense": "a period of success, popularity or power",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "расцве́т"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zenít",
"sense": "a period of success, popularity or power",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "зени́т"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lúčšaja porá",
"sense": "a period of success, popularity or power",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "лу́чшая пора́"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a period of success, popularity or power",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"masculine"
],
"word": "про̏цва̄т"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a period of success, popularity or power",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "зла́тнo до̑ба"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a period of success, popularity or power",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "prȍcvāt"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a period of success, popularity or power",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "zlátno dȏba"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a period of success, popularity or power",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "auge"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "a period of success, popularity or power",
"word": "storhetstid"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "rózkvit",
"sense": "a period of success, popularity or power",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ро́зквіт"
}
],
"word": "heyday"
}
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"etymology_text": "Late 16th century, from earlier heyda (1520s), as exclamation – compare hey, hei. Sense “period of success, vigor” is a respelling as heyday based on unrelated day (as “period of time”) – compare day in the sun.",
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{
"ref": "1798, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey:",
"text": "\"Heyday, Miss Morland!\" said he. \"What is the meaning of this? I thought you and I were to dance together.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A lively greeting."
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"greeting",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1600, Ben Jonson - Cynthia's Revels",
"text": "\"Come follow me, my wags, and say, as I say. There's no riches but in rags; hey day, hey day, &c.\""
},
{
"ref": "1633, John Ford, The Broken Heart, act IV, scene i, page 252:",
"text": "Bass. Heydey! good words, good words, I must beleeue'em And be a Coxcombe for my labor.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Here Jones, having ordered a servant to show a room above stairs, was ascending, when the dishevelled fair, hastily following, was laid hold on by the master of the house, who cried, “Heyday, where is that beggar wench going? Stay below stairs, I desire you.”",
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"glosses": [
"An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder."
],
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"(obsolete) An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder."
],
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"obsolete"
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}
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},
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"rhymes": "-eɪdeɪ"
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{
"sense": "greeting",
"word": "hello"
},
{
"sense": "expression of wonder",
"word": "wow"
}
],
"word": "heyday"
}
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