HONEYMOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does honeymoon mean? 

• HONEYMOON (noun)
  The noun HONEYMOON has 2 senses:

1. a holiday taken by a newly married couple

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

  Familiarity information: HONEYMOON used as a noun is rare.

• HONEYMOON (verb)
  The verb HONEYMOON has 1 sense:

1. spend a holiday after one's marriage

  Familiarity information: HONEYMOON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HONEYMOON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A holiday taken by a newly married couple

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("honeymoon" is a kind of...):

holiday; vacation (leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure)

Derivation:

honeymoon (spend a holiday after one's marriage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("honeymoon" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

• HONEYMOON (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they honeymoon    ... he / she / it honeymoons   
Past simple: honeymooned   
Past participle: honeymooned   
-ing form: honeymooning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spend a holiday after one's marriage

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

they plan to honeymoon in Hawai'i

Hypernyms (to "honeymoon" is one way to...):

holiday; vacation (spend or take a vacation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

honeymoon (a holiday taken by a newly married couple)

honeymooner (someone recently married)

 Context examples 

May I venture to suggest in 'a honeymoon paradise' that five o'clock is the dinner hour at your hotel?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The honeymoon over, I learned my mistake; she was only mad, and shut up in a lunatic asylum.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In my honeymoon, too, when my most inveterate enemy might relent, one would think, and not envy me a little peace of mind and happiness.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt as this.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Diana announced that she would just give me time to get over the honeymoon, and then she would come and see me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Amy had once called Valrosa a regular honeymoon home, so we went there, and were as happy as people are but once in their lives.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Two days later—that is, on Wednesday last—there is a curt announcement that the wedding had taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord Backwater’s place, near Petersfield.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a strange condition of things, the honeymoon being over, and the bridesmaids gone home, when I found myself sitting down in my own small house with Dora; quite thrown out of employment, as I may say, in respect of the delicious old occupation of making love.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She had better not wait till then, Jane, said Mr. Rochester, when I read her letter to him; if she does, she will be too late, for our honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We thought we were coming directly home, at first, but the dear old gentleman, as soon as we were married, found he couldn't be ready under a month, at least, and sent us off to spend our honeymoon wherever we liked.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)