HEYDAY | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of heyday in English

(Definition of heyday from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of heyday from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of heyday

heyday
This all changed by the time opera reached its heyday.
Even in the heyday of one-party states, when heads of state controlled virtually every organ of associational life, the spirit world was always more elusive.
But a good deal of his talk was simply reminiscing about the scholarly heyday of the 1890s.
The heydays of the movement was the years between 1935 and 1940, when they got involved in several carefully orchestrated stand-offs with aa government power.
But research has moved on since the heyday of generative semantics, and the target article was concerned with issues other than simply deriving sentences.
Some thirty people constituted the quasi-organization in its heyday of about a decade.
In their heyday, the inns of court appear to have played a vital role in fostering the proliferation of legal texts alongside legal learning.
Their heyday seemed to have been in the fifties, just as they were emerging to prominence, although their greatest successes would come later on.
Even in their heyday, people sometimes winked and leered at their seemingly retrograde approaches to life.
During the heyday of positivism, it was quite the rage.
That the spectatorship for different types of theatrical offerings was expanding during the heyday of operatic burlesque is worthy of note for several reasons.
After the initial heydays in the 1980s and early 1990s, the interest in qualitative simulation has subsided a bit.
This orphanage, which was founded in 1579, accommodated approximately 175 orphan boys and girls in its heyday in the seventeenth century.#!
However, even in the heyday of "the party period" there existed a sizable population of voters with shallow partisan moorings.
In time this book slights the history of the area after its heyday.
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Translations of heyday

in Chinese (Traditional)
全盛時期,鼎盛時期…
in Chinese (Simplified)
全盛时期,鼎盛时期…
in Spanish
apogeo, auge, buenos tiempos…
in Portuguese
auge, apogeu…
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in Dutch
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in Indonesian
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in Vietnamese
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en parlak devir/dönem, en güzel/başarılı çağ/dönem, en güzel günler…
beaux jours…
hoogtijdag…
vrcholná doba…
storhedstid…
zaman keemasan…
สมัยที่รุ่งเรืองที่สุด…
thời hoàng kim…
okres rozkwitu, szczyt popularności…
höjdpunkt, glansdagar…
zaman kegemilangan…
der Höhepunkt…
blomstrings-/glanstid, velmaktsdager…
зеніт, розквіт…
расцвет, лучшая пора…
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