How to use "halcyon" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "halcyon" in popular movie and book plots

  • Part II delves into the halcyon relationship between Mümtaz and his beloved Nuran through the intertwining of aspects of Ottoman Turkish classical music, folk songs, theater, and the natural beauty of the Bosphorus.  - A Mind at Peace
  • In those halcyon days, he's an unruly youngster in pretty village Sivasailam, (Hari's forte, Thirunelveli District), the son of a hard-working flower-sellers (Rajesh and Yuvasri), with Thapaal Thangavelu (Vadivelu), who provides as much laughter as the posts he delivers.  - Seval
  • Stage manager Sam Royce recalls the halcyon days at the beginning of the war: Theatrical impresario May "Tolly" Tolliver is rehearsing her performers when dancer Tommy Lawson comes to audition.  - Tonight and Every Night
  • But the halcyon days of Innstetten's past life are over, and career success fails to delight him.  - Effi Briest

Example sentences for "halcyon" in interesting articles

  • ichard stallman (left), julian assange and photo of edward snowden / CREDIt: WIKILeaksThe Ecuadorian Libraryor, The Blast Shack After Three YearsBack in distant, halcyon 2010, I was asked to write something about Wikileaks and its Cablegate scandal.  - The Ecuadorian Library
  • “These are halcyon days in Silicon Valley and other hives of entrepreneurship around the world,” the Economist review gushed, “Nobody knows this better than Ben Horowitz.  - How Andreessen Horowitz Is Disrupting Silicon Valley
  • She didn’t think it was, and was struck by how everyone believed in some mythical Golden Age of Marriage and saw mounting divorce rates as evidence of the dissolution of this halcyon past.  - All the Single Ladies

Meaning of "halcyon" in English

  • marked by peace and prosperity
    Example
    - the halcyon days of the clipper trade
  • idyllically calm and peaceful; suggesting happy tranquillity
  • 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
  • a large kingfisher widely distributed in warmer parts of the Old World
  • (Greek mythology) a woman who was turned into a kingfisher

Meaning of "halcyon" in Hindi

  • खुशगवार ( Khushagavar, khushagavaar, khushagawar)

Synonyms of "halcyon"

  • prosperous
  • genus halcyon
  • alcyone
  • golden

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