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  1. halcyon: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. halcyon: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
  3. halcyon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  4. halcyon: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  5. halcyon: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  6. Halcyon, halcyon: Wordnik [home, info]
  7. halcyon: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  8. Halcyon: Wiktionary [home, info]
  9. halcyon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  10. halcyon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  11. halcyon: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  12. Halcyon, halcyon: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  13. halcyon (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  14. halcyon: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. halcyon: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  16. Halcyon (Best Of), Halcyon (Chicane song), Halcyon (Orbital song), Halcyon (Stargate Atlantis Novel), Halcyon (console), Halcyon (dialogue), Halcyon (genus), Halcyon (kingfisher), Halcyon (role-playing game), Halcyon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  17. Halcyon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  18. halcyon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  19. halcyon: Rhymezone [home, info]
  20. Halcyon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  21. halcyon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  22. halcyon: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
  23. halcyon: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  24. halcyon: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
  25. halcyon: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  26. halcyon: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  27. halcyon: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  28. Halcyon: The Word Detective [home, info]
  29. halcyon: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  30. Halcyon: World Wide Words [home, info]
  31. halcyon: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
  32. halcyon: Worthless Word For The Day [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. halcyon: An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. halcyon: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. halcyon: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. halcyon: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. halcyon: Idioms [home, info]
  2. halcyon: Wordcraft Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (halcyon)

noun:  a mythical bird said to breed at the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea and to have the power of calming the winds and waves
noun:  a large kingfisher widely distributed in warmer parts of the Old World
noun:  (Greek mythology) a woman who was turned into a kingfisher
adjective:  idyllically calm and peaceful; suggesting happy tranquillity ("A halcyon atmosphere")
adjective:  marked by peace and prosperity ("The halcyon days of the clipper trade")

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