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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

... fall of the curtain in the last chapter. They ride lovingly together, close to one another, and forgetful of the whole world, as they should do, for they have scarcely come to the end of their honeymoon. ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... the men who had not been long married. They were not yet past the honeymoon period; they had young children at home; perhaps they had become fathers since they went to war. The younger men of the first line had the irresponsibility and the ardour of ...

— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... spend no time there alone. When I go out you shall go too, and if business takes me where you cannot accompany me I will give you money to shop with, which will keep you pleasantly occupied till I can rejoin you. Oh, we will make it a happy honeymoon, in spite of all obstacles, my darling. I should be a wretch if I did not make it happy ...

— The Hermit Of ------ Street - 1898 • Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs)

... revive and endure. The joy of battle comes after the first fear of death; the joy of reading Virgil comes after the bore of learning him; the glow of the sea-bather comes after the icy shock of the sea bath; and the success of the marriage comes after the failure of the honeymoon. All human vows, laws, and contracts are so many ways of surviving with success this breaking point, this instant of ...

— What's Wrong With The World • G.K. Chesterton

... been married some weeks only; yet she felt as if the old life had been years gone by, so faint and dreamlike did it seem. Hers was a very quiet marriage—a quiet honeymoon; fit crowning of a love which had been so solemn, almost sad, from its beginning to its end. Its end?—say, rather, its new dawn;—its fulfilment in a deeper, holier bond than is ever dreamed of by girlish sentiment or boyish ...

— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)

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