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| Main Entry: |
heyday
 [hey-dey] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prime |
| Synonyms: | acme, culmination, day, height, high point, high spot, peak, pinnacle, prime time, salad days, time, zenith |
| Antonyms: | low point |
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| Main Entry: | day |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | era |
| Synonyms: | age, ascendancy, cycle, epoch, generation, height, heyday, period, prime, term, time, years, zenith |
| Main Entry: | fame |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebrity |
| Synonyms: | acclaim, acclamation, account, acknowledgment, character, credit, dignity, distinction, elevation, eminence, esteem, estimation, exaltation, favor, glory, greatness, heyday, honor, illustriousness, immortality, kudos, laurels, luster, majesty, name, nobility, note, notoriety, place, popularity, position, preeminence, prominence, public esteem, rank, recognition, regard, renown, rep, report, reputation, repute, splendor, standing, stardom, station, superiority, éclat |
Example Sentences
- Ever since the heyday of nouvelle cuisine, restaurant chefs have reached for breasts instead of legs.
- The first farmers were less healthy than the hunter-gatherers had been in their heyday.
- The area is piled high with sedimentary rock from the heyday of the dinosaurs.
| Main Entry: | height |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | climax; importance |
| Synonyms: | acme, crest, crisis, crowning point, culmination, dignity, eminence, end, exaltation, extremity, grandeur, heyday, high point, limit, loftiness, maximum, ne plus ultra, prominence, sublimity, top, ultimate, utmost degree, uttermost |
| Antonyms: | bottom, nadir, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | popularity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recognition, celebrity |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, acclaim, adoration, approval, currency, demand, esteem, fame, fashion, fashionableness, favor, following, heyday, idolization, lionization, prevalence, regard, renown, reputation, repute, universality, vogue |
| Antonyms: | dislike, unpopularity |
| Main Entry: | prime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | best part of existence |
| Synonyms: | best, best days, bloom, choice, cream*, elite, fat*, flower*, flowering, height, heyday, maturity, peak, perfection, pink*, prize, spring, springtime, top, verdure, vitality, zenith |
| Antonyms: | downfall |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | time |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opportunity |
| Synonyms: | break, chance, heyday, look-in, occasion, opening, peak, shot, show, squeak |
| Main Entry: | repute |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fame |
| Synonyms: | acclaim, acclamation, account, acknowledgment, celebrity, character, credit, dignity, distinction, elevation, eminence, esteem, estimation, exaltation, famousness, favor, glory, greatness, heyday, honor, illustriousness, immortality, kudos*, laurels, luster, majesty, name*, nobility, note, notoriety, place, popularity, position, preeminence, prominence, public esteem, rank*, recognition, regard, renown, rep, report, reputation, splendor, standing, stardom, station, superiority, éclat |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | height |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
heaven, aerial, alpine, altitudinarian, altitudinous, altivolant, attolent, beetling, bird's, cloud, elevated, eminent, exalted, gigantic, hanging, highest, hilly, incumbent, lanky, lofty, moorland, mountainous, overhanging, overlying, patagonian, prominent, rampant, soaring, stilted, sub, superincumbent, superior, supernatant, tall, tall as a Maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, terraced, towering, upland, upper
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