halcyon 的 2 个定义
Also hal·cy·o·ni·an [hal-see-oh-nee-uhn], /ˌhæl siˈoʊ ni ən/, hal·cy·on·ic [hal-see-on-ik]. /ˌhæl siˈɒn ɪk/.
- calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- rich; wealthy; prosperous: halcyon times of peace.
- happy; joyful; carefree: halcyon days of youth.
- of or relating to the halcyon or kingfisher.
- a mythical bird, usually identified with the kingfisher, said to breed about the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea, and to have the power of charming winds and waves into calmness.
- any of various kingfishers, especially of the genus Halcyon.
- Classical Mythology. Alcyone.
halcyon 近义词
calm, peaceful
更多halcyon例句
- The tracks take me back to my youth and to simpler days, a complete halcyon era.
- Back in the halcyon pre-pandemic days of summer 2019, 69 percent of Americans said they planned to attend a barbecue to celebrate the Fourth of July according to a Monmouth University poll from June of that year.
- As we start to see the possible glimmer of a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, another summer is nearly upon us in all its halcyon glory.
- Now, The Lyle Hotel and Lyle’s evoke the former halcyon days as the Hotel Carlyle.
- In retrospect, 2009 and 2010 were halcyon days in the Middle East, now that we seem just one horseman short of an apocalypse.
- The halcyon days of Wolf, the third-wave feminist revolutionary and author of The Beauty Myth (1990), seem far, far away.
- Without a bribed official, a halcyon, or eagle, will watch the entry point with binoculars for patterns and opportunities.
- The mixed-media collection evokes nostalgia for halcyon days through fragmented images of the past.
- On the Impossible Past will transport you back to your halcyon, angsty teenage years.
- Relatively, it touches those old times when religious houses, with their quaintly-trimmed orders, were in their halcyon days.
- And yet subsequent generations have viewed with unconcern this halcyon period in the history of art.
- This is the halcyon period of primers, introductions, handbooks, manuals.
- Do you know the periods when the Mediterranean is troubled, and when the wintry halcyon days come?
- Sleighing parties from Wheeling frequented this old tavern in the halcyon days of the road, and were handsomely entertained.