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hey⋅day

1[hey-dey]
–noun
1. the stage or period of greatest vigor, strength, success, etc.; prime: the heyday of the vaudeville stars.
2. Archaic. high spirits.
Also, heydey.


Origin:
1580–90; var. of high day, appar. by confusion with heyday 2

hey⋅day

2[hey-dey]
–interjection Archaic.
(used as an exclamation of cheerfulness, surprise, wonder, etc.)

Origin:
1520–30; rhyming compound based on hey; r. heyda < G hei da hey there
hey·day   (hā'dā')   
n.  The period of greatest popularity, success, or power; prime.

[Perhaps alteration of heyda, exclamation of pleasure, probably alteration of Middle English hey, hey.]

Heyday

Hey"day`\, interj. [Cf. G. heida, or hei da, D. hei daar. Cf. Hey, and There.] An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder. --B. Jonson.

Heyday

Hey"day`\, n. [Prob. for. high day. See High, and Day.] The time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness.

The heyday in the blood is tame. --Shak.

In the heyday of their victories. --J. H. Newman.
Language Translation for : heyday
Spanish: apogeo, auge; buenos tiempos,
German: der Höhepunkt,
Japanese: 最盛期

heyday 
c.1590, alteration of heyda (1526), exclamation of playfulness or surprise, something like Mod.Eng. hurrah, apparently an extended form of M.E. interjection hey, hei. Modern sense of "stage of greatest vigor" first recorded 1751, which altered the spelling on model of day, with which this word apparently has no etymological connection.
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