Acme vs Heyday - What's the difference?
acme | heyday |
The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.
* (rfdate), (Alexander Pope)
* (rfdate),
(medicine) The crisis or height of a disease.
Mature age; full bloom of life.
A period of success, popularity, or power; prime.
A lively greeting.
* 1798 :"Heyday, Miss Morland!" said he. "What is the meaning of this? I thought you and I were to dance together." Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
(obsolete) An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.
* 1600 :"Come follow me, my wags, and say, as I say. There's no riches but in rags; hey day, hey day, &c." Ben Jonson - Cynthia's Revels
As a proper noun acme
is a village in alberta, canada.As a noun heyday is
a period of success, popularity, or power; prime.As an interjection heyday is
a lively greeting.acme
English
Noun
(en noun)- The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry.
- The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy.
- (Ben Jonson)
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The early twentieth century was the heyday of the steam locomotive.
