Heyday vs Flourishing - What's the difference?
heyday | flourishing | Related terms |
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
Heyday is a related term of flourishing.
As nouns the difference between heyday and flourishing
is that heyday is a period of success, popularity, or power; prime while flourishing is the action of the verb (flourish); flowering.As an interjection heyday
is a lively greeting.As a verb flourishing is
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Noun
(en noun)- The early twentieth century was the heyday of the steam locomotive.