Halcyon means a calm and happy period looked back on fondly. Halcyon days, the halcyon years, halcyon summers.
It appears almost only as halcyon days. The Greek word means kingfisher, and the phrase comes from a myth that the bird nested on the sea at midwinter while the waves were stilled for it.
1nounhalcyonA calm and happy period looked back on fondly.
“My grandfather often talks about the halcyon days of his youth by the sea.”
halcyon is a period.
The Greek names a bird once said to calm the sea while it sat on its eggs. Halcyon days are the calm ones you look back on.
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Greek alkyon means kingfisher, from a myth that it nested on a calmed midwinter sea.
Ancient Greek
ἀλκυών
Latin
halcyōn
Middle English
Alceoun
English, today
halcyon
Built from
Middle English Alceoun, from Latin halcyōn, alcyōn (“kingfisher”), from Ancient Greek ἀλκυών.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA