heyday

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Late 16th century, from earlier heyda (1520s), as exclamation – compare hey, hei. Sense “period of success, vigor” is a respelling as heyday based on unrelated day (as “period of time”) – compare day in the sun.

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: разцвет (razcvet) — a period of success, popularity or power
• Bulgarian: апогей (apogej) — a period of success, popularity or power
• Czech: rozkvět — a period of success, popularity or power
• Czech: vrchol — a period of success, popularity or power
• Czech: rozmach — a period of success, popularity or power
• Danish: blomstringstid — a period of success, popularity or power
• Danish: storhedstid — a period of success, popularity or power
• Danish: velmagtsdage — a period of success, popularity or power
• Dutch: hoogtijdag — a period of success, popularity or power
• Dutch: bloeitijd — a period of success, popularity or power
• Esperanto: zenito — a period of success, popularity or power
• Finnish: kukoistuskausi — a period of success, popularity or power
• French: âge d’or — a period of success, popularity or power
• Galician: fastixio — a period of success, popularity or power
• Galician: cume — a period of success, popularity or power
• Galician: auxe — a period of success, popularity or power
• German: Blütezeit — a period of success, popularity or power
• Hungarian: fénykor — a period of success, popularity or power
• Italian: auge — a period of success, popularity or power
• Japanese: 全盛期 (zenseiki) — a period of success, popularity or power
• Korean: 전성기 (jeonseonggi) — a period of success, popularity or power
• Manx: ard-laa — a period of success, popularity or power
• Māori: poutūmārōtanga — a period of success, popularity or power
• Norwegian: glansperiode — a period of success, popularity or power
• Polish: szczyt — a period of success, popularity or power
• Polish: pełnia — a period of success, popularity or power
• Polish: rozkwit — a period of success, popularity or power
• Portuguese: auge — a period of success, popularity or power
• Russian: расцве́т (rascvét) — a period of success, popularity or power
• Russian: зени́т (zenít) — a period of success, popularity or power
• Russian: лу́чшая пора́ (lúčšaja porá) — a period of success, popularity or power
• Serbo-Croatian: про̏цва̄т — a period of success, popularity or power
• Serbo-Croatian: зла́тнo до̑ба — a period of success, popularity or power
• Serbo-Croatian: prȍcvāt — a period of success, popularity or power
• Serbo-Croatian: zlátno dȏba — a period of success, popularity or power
• Spanish: auge — a period of success, popularity or power
• Swedish: storhetstid — a period of success, popularity or power
• Ukrainian: ро́зквіт (rózkvit) — a period of success, popularity or power