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heyday
1[ hey-dey ]
noun
- the stage or period of greatest vigor, strength, success, etc.; prime:
the heyday of the vaudeville stars.
- Archaic. high spirits.
heyday
2[ hey-dey ]
interjection
- (used as an exclamation of cheerfulness, surprise, wonder, etc.)
heyday
/ ˈheɪˌdeɪ /
noun
- the time of most power, popularity, vigour, etc; prime
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Origin of heyday1
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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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