Meaning

noun a holiday taken by a newly married couple

noun the early (usually calm and harmonious) period of a relationship; business or political

verb spend a holiday after one's marriage

originFrom 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”,…

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