Halcyon is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HALCYON in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a mythical bird that calmed the sea on the winter solstice
• a mythical bird said by ancient writers to breed in a nest floating at sea at the winter solstice, charming the wind and waves into calm.
• a tropical Asian and African kingfisher with brightly coloured plumage.
• A kingfisher. By modern ornithologists restricted to a genus including a limited number of species having omnivorous habits, as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia.
• (Greek mythology) a woman who was turned into a kingfisher
• a large kingfisher widely distributed in warmer parts of the Old World
• 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
• mythological bird
ADJECTIVE:
• denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful
• peaceful and happy
• Pertaining to, or resembling, the halcyon, which was anciently said to lay her eggs in nests on or near the sea during the calm weather about the winter solstice.
• Hence: Calm; quiet; peaceful; undisturbed; happy.
• idyllically calm and peaceful; suggesting happy tranquillity
• marked by peace and prosperity

Words related to HALCYON

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Words that contain HALCYON

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How to use HALCYON in a sentence

• Obliquely we were nearing the sea upon our left, which also must, under the present circumstances, be repeating the general state of halcyon repose.
• In those halcyon days, the drawing-rooms were hung with gilded leather, and, I dare say, cut a good figure, for they were really spacious rooms.
• No one would guess, from any word between cover and cover, that these were not halcyon years, an epoch of complete European tranquillity.
• These halcyon days, too, were but of short duration.
• This bird is the celebrated Alcedo, or Halcyon, of the ancients, who attributed to him many apparently supernatural powers.
• But, nevertheless, these were not the halcyon days of old.
• But I am afraid the halcyon light that paused and passed on in those centuries will never return.
• Once, in the halcyon summer, David Kent had said that the most hardened criminal in the dock was less dangerous to humanity than the woman who had forgotten how to cry.
• Yet, for all her halcyon hours, there were little things that worried her.
• And that is why a halcyon time has come to mean a season of peace and safety.
• Had she been surrounded by friends, such as she had known in her halcyon school days at Paris, she would have been the gayest of the gay.
• But this scale is a little halcyon in most instances.
• To them it was the halcyon hour, the highest point of their mutual adventure.
• If she refrained from spending a dollar for several years, she could hardly clear herself of the accumulated bills from her halcyon days of hope.
• Rather stout had Calico become in these halcyon days.
• But this halcyon period was yet afar off, and the colonel roused himself to the duty of the hour.
• Amid the howl of more than winter storms, The halcyon hears the voice of vernal hours, Already on the wing.
• I foresaw nothing in marriage but a halcyon calm, and longed for the happiness which was to be found in the inseparable society of a good sort of woman.
• Far along in the horizon, they discern mild skies and halcyon seas, while fogs and darkness and mists blind other sons of humanity from beholding all this bright vision.
• It was natural that it should rush to a high perfection in the halcyon days of its growth.
• There was a popular belief in those days that a dead halcyon, hung by the beak, always turned its breast to the quarter whence the wind was blowing.
• I sometimes think that the young people of the present day lose much of the romance that used to belong to the halcyon period of courtship.
• In autumn come for spirits rightly attuned these pellucid halcyon days of the Indian summer.
• A halcyon Age, afar it shines, Solstice of Man and the Antonines.
• But this, as far as I remember, was avoided in those halcyon days by the simple expedient of presenting all who desired it.
• The halcyon weather held for two weeks, the delicate weather of Indian summer.
• Alas! how little we knew on the day of my ordination, and in those halcyon moments of our first house-keeping.

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