Heyday vs Milestone - What's the difference?
heyday | milestone |
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
A stone milepost (or by extension in other materials), one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in a median.
An important event in a person's life or career, in the history of a nation, in the life of some project, etc.
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To place milestones along (a road, etc.).
To plan out a project as a series of major steps.
As nouns the difference between heyday and milestone
is that heyday is a period of success, popularity, or power; prime while milestone is a stone milepost (or by extension in other materials), one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road at regular intervals, typically at the side of the road or in a median.As an interjection heyday
is a lively greeting.As a verb milestone is
to place milestones along (a road, etc).heyday
English
Noun
(en noun)- The early twentieth century was the heyday of the steam locomotive.
Synonyms
* (l)Interjection
(en interjection)References
milestone
English
(wikipedia milestone)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}