heyday
heyday
Definition
hey·day (hā′dā′)
noun
the time of greatest health, vigor, success, prosperity, etc.; prime
Etymology: ME hei dai, full daylight, well on in the day < hei, high + dai, day
Archaic used to express surprise, joy, or wonder
Etymology: earlier heyda prob. < (or akin to) Ger & Dan heida, Du heidaar, hey there!: see hey
heyday
Synonyms
heyday
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- have: The formations are magnificent and anyone interested in cave photography should have a heyday in there.
- recall: His mid-air feinting kicks, spins and flips recall the mid-80s heyday of Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao.
Preposition: as
- port: Cádiz ' s heyday as a port was in the 16th century when it traded in gold and silver from the Americas.
Adjective modifier
- Victorian: Even prior to its Victorian heyday, Dundee was a town of considerable importance.
- industrial: In its industrial heyday 90 % of Britain's copper smelting capacity was located within a 20 mile radius of Swansea.
- early: In its 1970s, early 80s heyday, ' The Pops ' soared.
- 70s: I wouldn't buy it, but I'm curious to hear his new " throwback to his ' 70s heyday " album.
- brief: Sounds like someone's into shagging the dead corpse of the Rolling Stones ' brief early 70s heyday.
Noun used with modifier
- 1970s: In the 1970s heyday of Latin music in New York you had to be good to ' cut the mustard ' .
- 1980s: Constantine was chief supplier to The Body Shop in its 1980s heyday.
- seventy: The band were never really commercially successful even back in prog's seventies heyday.
Possessives
- band: The two have an uneasy rivalry that dates back to the seventies, and their respective bands ' heydays.
Preposition: in
- 1970s: In its heyday in the 1970s, Superstars was required viewing.
- century: Vauxhall Cross traffic gyratory overlays land that was part of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, which had its heyday in the eighteenth century.
Preposition: of
- empire: What is the relationship between early or mid-19th century writing about empire and late 19th-century orientalism, produced in the heyday of empire?
- port: Wonder at the grand secessionist and art nouveau architecture which betrays the Austro-Hungarian heyday of the port, Croatia's third largest city.
- industry: The stores, which were used in the heyday of the herring fishing industry, had become an eyesore on the harbor front.
- steam: The images on this page show the contraction of the station from the heyday of steam to it's current branch status.
- trade: The heyday of the tin trade was in the early 16th century.
