HALCYON meaning: Calm, peaceful; prosperous, golden period

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word halcyon:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

halcyon: Merriam-Webster
Halcyon, halcyon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
halcyon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
halcyon: Collins English Dictionary
Halcyon, halcyon: Vocabulary.com
Halcyon, halcyon: Wordnik
halcyon: Wiktionary
halcyon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
halcyon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
halcyon: Infoplease Dictionary
Halcyon, halcyon: Dictionary.com
halcyon (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
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Halcyon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
halcyon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
halcyon: Rhymezone
Halcyon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
halcyon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
halcyon: FreeDictionary.org
halcyon: Mnemonic Dictionary
Halcyon: The Word Detective
halcyon: TheFreeDictionary.com
Halcyon: World Wide Words
halcyon: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
halcyon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)

An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)

halcyon: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

halcyon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

halcyon: Idioms
halcyon: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

halcyon: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (poetic) A kingfisher whose nesting by the sea was said, in classical mythology, to cause the Gods to restrain the wind and waves.
▸ noun:  The dead body of such a bird, said in Tudor times to act as a weather vane when hung from a beam.
▸ noun:  A tropical kingfisher of the genus Halcyon, such as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia.
▸ adjective:  Pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) Calm, undisturbed, peaceful, serene.

Similar:

golden, happy, prosperous, peaceful, alcyon, Hyperion, harpy, sea king, Ceyx, caladrius, more...

Opposite:

hectic, chaotic, turbulent

Types:

kingfisher, bee-eater, tody, roller, motmot, more...

Phrases:

halcyon days, halcyon sancta, genus halcyon, The Halcyon, Halcyon Digest, more...

Adjectives:

beautiful, celebrated, little, greek, belted, modest, commonest, blue, more, fabled, dead

Colors:

sky blue, turquoise, teal, aquamarine, cerulean, more...