HEYDAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heyday mean? 

• HEYDAY (noun)
  The noun HEYDAY has 1 sense:

1. the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

  Familiarity information: HEYDAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEYDAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The period of greatest prosperity or productivity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

bloom; blossom; efflorescence; flower; flush; heyday; peak; prime

Hypernyms ("heyday" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heyday"):

golden age (a time period when some activity or skill was at its peak)

 Context examples 

Heyday! said my aunt, that's soon.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This time period corresponds to Earth’s Cretaceous period, the heyday of dinosaurs.

(Evidence for Young Lunar Volcanism, NASA)

In Lady Russell's view, it was perfectly natural that Mr Elliot, at a mature time of life, should feel it a most desirable object, and what would very generally recommend him among all sensible people, to be on good terms with the head of his family; the simplest process in the world of time upon a head naturally clear, and only erring in the heyday of youth.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)