Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: honeymoon
IPA transcription: [h'ĘŚnim,un]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: honeymoon
    Meaning: a holiday taken by a newly married couple
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: honeymoon
    Meaning: spend a holiday after one's marriage; "they plan to honeymoon in Hawai'i"
Usage examples
  • Mamma, do you know where they're going for the honeymoon?"
  • Margaret had a bad attack of these nerves during the honeymoon.
  • Her honeymoon was not only waning, but going into a total eclipse.
  • She was married in the year 1879 to Mr. Richard Tebrick, after a short courtship, and went to live after their honeymoon at Rylands, near Stokoe, Oxon.
  • So here was Peter dressed in his best clothes, as for his temporary honeymoon with the grass widow, and on the way to the rendezvous an hour ahead of time.
  • Yet that couldn't be true either, for several times on the honeymoon he had begun talking of her, of things she had said, of things she had liked, and it was she, Lucy, who stopped him.
  • Meanwhile, all the time, she could be learning, and in due course she would reach that shining goal of Housekeeping Efficiency, short of which--according to Aunt Hannah and the "Talk to Young Wives"--no woman need hope for a waneless honeymoon.