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Halcyon   /hˈælsiən/   Listen
Halcyon

adjective
1.
Idyllically calm and peaceful; suggesting happy tranquillity.
2.
Marked by peace and prosperity.  Synonyms: golden, prosperous.  "The halcyon days of the clipper trade"
noun
1.
(Greek mythology) a woman who was turned into a kingfisher.  Synonym: Alcyone.
2.
A large kingfisher widely distributed in warmer parts of the Old World.  Synonym: genus Halcyon.
3.
A mythical bird said to breed at the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea and to have the power of calming the winds and waves.



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"Halcyon" Quotes from Famous Books



... sols; but the pigeons are dearer than in London. Rabbits are very rare; and there is scarce a goose to be seen in the whole county of Nice. Wild-ducks and teal are sometimes to be had in the winter; and now I am speaking of sea-fowl, it may not be amiss to tell you what I know of the halcyon, or king's-fisher. It is a bird, though very rare in this country about the size of a pigeon; the body brown, and the belly white: by a wonderful instinct it makes its nest upon the surface of the sea, and lays its eggs in the month of November, when the Mediterranean is always calm and ...
— Travels Through France and Italy • Tobias Smollett

... valuable privileges. A like cordial understanding between the citizens and their sovereign existed under Henry V., and the City, in consequence, increased in opulence, population, and influence. Guildhall was built, and the streets were lighted at night by public lanterns. The halcyon days, however, of the City of London must be referred to the reign of the fourth Edward. The citizens never wavered in their attachment to his fortunes, nor did that gay and gallant monarch ever exhibit any coldness of feeling—at ...
— The Corporation of London: Its Rights and Privileges • William Ferneley Allen

... however, and I would hold them: the halcyon breakfast, the queer hat, the pebble in her small shoe, the gold bag with the broken chain—the bag! Why, it was in my ...
— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... the dinner that followed betimes—during which Mr. Graham's pleasantries and Louise's gay spirits and mirth evoked in Lee a blitheness to which he long had been a stranger and in Dave a state of joyous bliss—they luxuriated in halcyon well-being. After the meal Louise, at her father's suggestion, went to the piano and sang while the men were smoking their cigars. And then followed an hour at cards, High Five, at which Mr. Graham and Dave won the most games; and then a maid, a Mexican girl, Rosita, brought in ...
— The Iron Furrow • George C. Shedd

... Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian, the philosopher, the historian and the humble listener, there has been a divine melody running through the song, which speaks of hope and halcyon days ...
— The Right Knock - A Story • Helen Van-Anderson


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