| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Halcyon days | Halcyon days are calm days; a reference to the fourteen days of calm weather the ancients believed to precede the winter solstice that coincided with the brooding of the Halcyon--fabled to be in nests floating on the sea--because the birds charmed the winds and waves so that seas were especially calm. (references) | ||
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| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Halcyon Days | Literature | 1: Wild: Iter Boreal 2: A time of happiness and prosperity. Halcyon is the Greek for a kingfisher, compounded of hals (the sea) and kuo (to brood on). The ancient Sicilians believed that the kingfisher laid its eggs and incubated for fourteen days, before the winter solstice, on the surface of the sea, during which time the waves of the sea were always unruffled. 3: Dryden. 4: "Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be 5: About the deck, and prophesie calm weather." 6: As halcyon brooding on a winter's sea." 7: "The peaceful kingfishers are met together. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Halcyon Days (Water) | Administration | With respect to water, generally refers to idyllic by-gone days when supplies of an area’s fresh water were relatively abundant with respect to the demands of man. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: HALCYON DAYS | ||||
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| Halcyon days | 56 | Halcyon days | 56 | |
| Halcyon Days (Strawbs album) | 22 | Halcyon Days (album) | 10 | |
| Halcyon Days (Bruce Hornsby album) | 10 | Halcyon Days (book) | 4 | |
| Halcyon Days (album) | 10 | Halcyon Days (Bruce Hornsby album) | 10 | |
| Halcyon Days (play) | 6 | Halcyon Days (play) | 6 | |
| Halcyon Days (book) | 4 | Halcyon Days (Strawbs album) | 22 | |
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