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/hˈənimˌun/ Listen

noun

Honeymoon n.

The first month after marriage.

A vacation taken together by a newly married couple, usually including a trip away from home.

Hence: (fig.) Any initial period of harmony after two or more people or organizations begin working together; as, the usual honeymoon for a newly elected president was cut short by resumption of partisan sniping over the budget.

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Etymology of 'Honeymoon'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Honeymoon" Quotes from Famous Books

... laughed a little, rather satirically. "A commonplace engagement and a commonplace wedding and a commonplace honeymoon leading into a land of commonplace disillusion and ...

— The Great God Success • John Graham (David Graham Phillips)

... Princess Charlotte," and be conveyed as far as Kingston, on the wedding journey to Quebec, where Edward, with his bride, was to proceed to England to rejoin his regiment, and Allan and Rose were to spend the honeymoon in some delightful retreat on ...

— An Algonquin Maiden - A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada • G. Mercer Adam

... planning, however, and marshalling our resources, Hildreth and I abandoned ourselves to the mutual happiness and endearments of two love-drunk, emotion-crazed beings on a honeymoon.... ...

— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

... of the Father to see the fellow he had married the night before, and whom he supposed to be in the enjoyment of his honeymoon, tied up to a tree and looking more dead than alive; and his indignation knew no bounds when he heard that a "couple-beggar" had dared to celebrate the marriage ceremony, which fact came out in the course of the explanation Andy made of the desperate ...

— Handy Andy, Vol. 2 - A Tale of Irish Life • Samuel Lover

... quiet wedding was what we wanted—she thought her father might stop the thing if he knew, and I was dashed sure my mother would—so we decided to get married without telling anybody. By now," said Eustace, with a morose glance at the porthole, "I ought to have been on my honeymoon. Everything was settled. I had the licence and the parson's fee. I had been breaking in a ...

— The Girl on the Boat • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

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