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heyday

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noun

the stage or period of greatest vigor, strength, success, etc.; prime: the heyday of the vaudeville stars.

Archaic. high spirits.

Also, hey·dey.

Origin:
1580–90; variant of high day, apparently by confusion with heyday²

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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The heyday of the hippies lasted for all of about two years.

Two of them, published last year, provide bookends for the heyday of theory.

In the heyday of central planning, such bad luck could last a lifetime.

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The heyday of the hippies lasted for all of about two years.

Two of them, published last year, provide bookends for the heyday of theory.

In the heyday of central planning, such bad luck could last a lifetime.

Salt from the desert had great value and, along with other caravan goods, enriched the city in its heyday.

And how about some actual reporting instead of political heyday.

The area is piled high with sedimentary rock from the heyday of the dinosaurs.

The fourth dimension of smell enjoyed a brief if cheesy heyday half a century ago.

It's a place where opportunity for blacks seems to have largely evaporated since its manufacturing heyday.

It is the heyday of free agents, whose loyalty is only to their own skills.

Isfahan nesf-e-jahan-"Isfahan is half the world"-is still used today to express the greatness of the city in its heyday.

Which is a funny thing to want when you're making a lavish superhero sequel here in the heyday of the greenscreen.

The essay became a touchstone in the heyday of literary theory, reprinted in a slew of anthologies and cited copiously.

The first farmers were less healthy than the hunter-gatherers had been in their heyday.

Environmental factors during the heyday of the gold standard were hardly a consideration.

Galleries break history into time periods, with special emphasis on radio's heyday.

Built during the heyday of the railroads and steel mill.

She wasn't as good in the first year of her career as she was in her heyday.

But in its heyday women were there alongside the men, sometimes subverting its conventions.

But the heyday is long since over, the mines are closed, and.

During it's heyday as a piece of medical equipment there were ten manufacturers of these devices in the.

But let's be honest: space's heyday was the summer of.

Ever since the heyday of nouvelle cuisine, restaurant chefs have reached for breasts instead of legs.

Nonetheless a wonderful article bringing a nostalgic chill to anyone remembering the car in its heyday.

These two departments were, in the heyday of communist rule, known for their nonideological faculties.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

interjection Archaic.

(used as an exclamation of cheerfulness, surprise, wonder, etc.)

Origin:
1520–30; rhyming compound based on hey; replacing heyda < German hei da hey there

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heyday (ˈheɪˌdeɪ)

—n
	the time of most power, popularity, vigour, etc; prime

[C16: probably based on hey]

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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

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"What a perpetual disappointment is actual society, even of the virtuous and gifted! After interviews have been compassed with long foresight, we must be tormented presently by baffled blows, by sudden, unseasonable apathies, by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heyday of friendship and thought. Our faculties do not play us true, and both parties are relieved by solitude."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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