What does the word halcyon mean?
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A kingfisher.
Part of speech: noun
Part of speech: adjective
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Usage examples for halcyon
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His kind, puzzled eyes haunted her dreams, and the thought of him proved the one disturbing element in these halcyon days. – Calvary Alley by Alice Hegan Rice
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They form an underground and live aboard a ship, loosely communicating with a halcyon city called " Zion", the last bastion of resistance. – Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema by Sam Vaknin
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Such will naturally be anxious to witness the first development of the newly- hatched colony, and the primitive manners and customs prevalent among its inhabitants, during the halcyon reign of Van Twiller, or the Doubter. – Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving