honeymoon
/ˈhʌn.iˌmuːn/
honeymoon noun: the period of time immediately following a marriage.
Noun
honeymoon (plural honeymoons)
- The period of time immediately following a marriage.
- The new minister and his wife were a young, pleasant-faced couple, still on their honeymoon, and full of all good and beautiful enthusiasms for their chosen lifework.1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “Chapter XXII: A New Departure in Flavorings”, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC
- A trip taken by a newly married couple during this period.
- We went to Greece for our honeymoon.
- I will say, 'Sir, I am going to marry your daughter. Be silent, sir! I have decided to do this and I will not be balked by a gouty old father-in-law. I want you to understand that from now on I am the master of this house. You may write out a check for ten thousand dollars for our honeymoon.'1923, Robert Ervin Howard, Unhand Me, Villain: A Romance
- Synonyms:
- wedding journey
- A period of goodwill at the beginning of a new term or relationship (e.g. towards a newly elected politician or in respect of a new business arrangement).
- Now that the honeymoon is over, it’s time for us to get down to the business at hand.
- The honeymoon period came to a swift end when the legislation was introduced.
Verb
honeymoon (third-person singular simple present honeymoons, present participle honeymooning, simple past and past participle honeymooned)
- To have a honeymoon (a trip taken by a couple after wedding).
- My parents honeymooned at Niagara falls.
- No sooner were they married than Dick fitted out his schooner, the All Away, and away the blessed pair of them went, honeymooning from Bordeaux to Hongkong.1916, Jack London, chapter XVIII, in The Little Lady of the Big House
honeymoon meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
honeymoon in Hindi
- honeymoon
- हनीमून hanīmūn
honeymoon in Tamil
- period of time immediately following a marriage
- தேனிலவு tēṉilavu
- trip taken by a newly married couple
- தேனிலவு tēṉilavu
honeymoon in Marathi
- मधुचंद्र, मधुचंद्राचे
honeymoon in Urdu
- ہنی مون, ہنی موننگ, ہنی مونگ
More languagesFewer languages
- honeymoon in Bengali
- মধুচন্দ্রিমা modhucondrima
- honeymoon in Telugu
- హనీమూన్, మధుచంద్రం
- honeymoon in Malayalam
- മധുവിധു madhuvidhu
- honeymoon in Kannada
- ಮಧುಚಂದ್ರ, ಮಧುಮಾಸ, ಮಧುವಿಹಾರ, ಆರಂಭದ ಹೊಸ ಹುರುಪು
- honeymoon in Punjabi
- ਹਨੀਮੂਨ
- honeymoon in Gujarati
- હનીમૂન, મધુચંદ્ર
- honeymoon in Odia
- ହନିମୁନ୍, ହନିମୁନ
- honeymoon in Nepali
- हनीमून, हनिमुन, हनिमुनिङ
- honeymoon in Tagalog
- pulot-gata
- honeymoon in Arabic
- شَهْر عَسَل šahr ʕasal
- honeymoon in Malay
- bulan madu, berbulan madu
- honeymoon in Indonesian
- bulan madu
- honeymoon in Persian
- ماه عسل mâh-e 'asal
- honeymoon in Vietnamese
- tuần trăng mật
Examples of honeymoon in a sentence
- It was here I returned 8 months later as your President to ask not for a honeymoon, but for a good marriage.1977 January 12, Gerald Ford, Ford's farewell address:
- It suggests any honeymoon for the new government is over, with falls in approval ratings across the board for the senior figures in the cabinet.2024 September 21, Michael Savage, “Honeymoon over: Keir Starmer now less popular than Rishi Sunak”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Synonyms of honeymoon
Forms of honeymoon
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | honeymoons |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | honeymoons |
| present participle | honeymooning |
| past participle | honeymooned |
| past | honeymooned |
Origin of honeymoon
From earlier hony moone, originally denoting the period of time following a wedding, equivalent to honey + moon. The original reference was to affection waning like the moon, but later the sense became "the first month, or moon after marriage", which tends to be the sweetest. Compare Middle Low German suckermânt (“honeymoon”, literally “sugar-month”), German Low German Hönnigweken (“honeymoon”, literally “honey-weeks”). The German Honigmond (literally “honey-moon”) is a calque of French lune de miel, itself a calque of the English term.
Words formed from honeymoon
Phrases with honeymoon
Questions about honeymoon
- What does honeymoon mean?
- Honeymoon means the period of time immediately following a marriage.
- What is honeymoon in Hindi?
- Honeymoon in Hindi is हनीमून (hanīmūn). See Honeymoon meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use honeymoon in a sentence?
- It was here I returned 8 months later as your President to ask not for a honeymoon, but for a good marriage.
- What part of speech is honeymoon?
- Honeymoon can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce honeymoon?
- Honeymoon is pronounced /ˈhʌn.iˌmuːn/.
- What is the plural of honeymoon?
- The plural of honeymoon is honeymoons.
Words near honeymoon in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: honeymoon (page history and authors); हनीमून (Hindi) (page history and authors); honeymoon (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); honeymoon (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); মধুচন্দ্রিমা (Bengali) (page history and authors); honeymoon (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); honeymoon (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); honeymoon (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); honeymoon (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); honeymoon (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); honeymoon (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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