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"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"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English interjections",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"Rhymes:English/eɪdeɪ",
"Rhymes:English/eɪdeɪ/2 syllables"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "heyda"
},
"expansion": "heyda",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "hey"
},
"expansion": "hey",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "hei"
},
"expansion": "hei",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "day"
},
"expansion": "day",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "day in the sun"
},
"expansion": "day in the sun",
"name": "m"
}
],
"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.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "heyday",
"name": "en-interj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "intj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"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": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A lively greeting."
],
"links": [
[
"greeting",
"greeting"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"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": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈheɪdeɪ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪdeɪ"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-heyday.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/74/En-us-heyday.ogg/En-us-heyday.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/En-us-heyday.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "greeting",
"word": "hello"
},
{
"sense": "expression of wonder",
"word": "wow"
}
],
"word": "heyday"
}
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