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{"id": "halcyon", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "halcyon", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"entries": [{"etymologies": ["late Middle English (in the mythological sense): via Latin from Greek alku\u014dn \u2018kingfisher\u2019 (also halku\u014dn, by association with hals \u2018sea\u2019 and ku\u014dn \u2018conceiving\u2019)"], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/halcyon_gb_1_8.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8hals\u026a\u0259n"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful"], "examples": [{"text": "the halcyon days of the mid 1980s, when profits were soaring"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0445130.006", "shortDefinitions": ["denoting period of time in past that was idyllically happy"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "serene"}, {"language": "en", "text": "calm"}, {"language": "en", "text": "pleasant"}, {"language": "en", "text": "balmy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "tranquil"}, {"language": "en", "text": "peaceful"}, {"language": "en", "text": "temperate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "mild"}, {"language": "en", "text": "quiet"}, {"language": "en", "text": "gentle"}, {"language": "en", "text": "placid"}, {"language": "en", "text": "still"}, {"language": "en", "text": "windless"}, {"language": "en", "text": "stormless"}, {"language": "en", "text": "happy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "carefree"}, {"language": "en", "text": "blissful"}, {"language": "en", "text": "golden"}, {"language": "en", "text": "joyful"}, {"language": "en", "text": "joyous"}, {"language": "en", "text": "contented"}, {"language": "en", "text": "idyllic"}, {"language": "en", "text": "palmy"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "halcyon", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0006676.001"}, {"entry_id": "halcyon", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0006676.002"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "adjective", "text": "Adjective"}, "text": "halcyon"}, {"entries": [{"pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/halcyon_gb_1_8.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8hals\u026a\u0259n"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["a mythical bird said by ancient writers to breed in a nest floating at sea at the winter solstice, charming the wind and waves into calm."], "domainClasses": [{"id": "mythology", "text": "Mythology"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0445130.010", "semanticClasses": [{"id": "mythical_being", "text": "Mythical_Being"}], "shortDefinitions": ["mythical bird said by ancient writers to breed in nest floating at sea at winter solstice"]}, {"definitions": ["a tropical Asian and African kingfisher with brightly coloured plumage."], "domainClasses": [{"id": "bird", "text": "Bird"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0445130.014", "notes": [{"text": "Genus Halcyon, family Alcedinidae: many species", "type": "technicalNote"}], "semanticClasses": [{"id": "bird", "text": "Bird"}], "shortDefinitions": ["tropical Asian and African kingfisher with brightly coloured plumage"]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "noun", "text": "Noun"}, "text": "halcyon"}], "type": "headword", "word": "halcyon"}], "word": "halcyon"}
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