Definition of “halcyon”

A memento of youth, of halcyon days. But look deeper, beyond the frozen smiles, and there were stories behind the image.

In those halcyon days, one successful passage paid three times over for the ship and her crew's wages.

It's as if I have been sedated for a week, living a halcyon dream of rest, relaxation and renewal.

No 1 in the Commonwealth, she is the best British woman javelin thrower since the halcyon days of Tessa Sanderson and Fatima Whitbread.

Not surprisingly it was also a halcyon age for weapon design.

The New Face of SWAT These are halcyon days for American SWAT teams.

The whole tenor of Hollywood dressing has shifted towards a halcyon , rose-tinted view of old-school Hollywood glamour.

They were the stuff of myth-building in those halcyon years of economic boom.

This had been too halcyon a day to clutter up the memory of it with some backwoods bully's melodramatic bellowings.