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heyday

1
or hey·dey

[ 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.


heyday

2

[ hey-dey ]

interjection

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

heyday

/ ˈheɪˌdeɪ /

noun

  1. the time of most power, popularity, vigour, etc; prime


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Word History and Origins

Origin of heyday1

1580–90; variant of high day, apparently by confusion with heyday 2

Origin of heyday2

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of heyday1

C16: probably based on hey

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Example Sentences

The Rizzoli in New York City was no ordinary bookstore in its seventies heyday.

I was the kid making a tidy profit burning CDs for all my friends at two bucks a pop back during the Napster heyday in 2000.

Even a century after his heyday, Houdini has maintained the same mystique he enjoyed while living.

But in his heyday, no public poll showed him with less than 34 percent support among the American public.

Big Sugar, advocates say, is employing strategies reminiscent of Big Tobacco in its heyday.

How different the homeward journey from the intoxicating outward flight, in the heyday of the spring!

Is it for this that in the heyday of youth I walked with you to the school-house down the road!

Sternes period of literary activity falls in the sixties, the very heyday of British supremacy in Germany.

On the two occasions following he was in the very heyday of his mental strength.

He lived in the heyday of competition, when it seemed utter folly to talk about the end of competition.

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