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hon⋅ey⋅moon

  [huhn-ee-moon]
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–noun
1. a vacation or trip taken by a newly married couple.
2. the month or so following a marriage.
3. any period of blissful harmony: Their entire 60 years of marriage was one long honeymoon.
4. any new relationship characterized by an initial period of harmony and goodwill: The honeymoon between Congress and the new president was over.
–verb (used without object)
5. to spend one's honeymoon (usually fol. by in or at).
Origin:
1540–50; honey + moon

Related forms:
hon⋅ey⋅moon⋅er, noun
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hon·ey·moon   (hŭn'ē-mōōn')   
n.  

  1. A holiday or trip taken by a newly married couple.

  2. An early harmonious period in a relationship: The honeymoon between the new President and the press was soon over.

intr.v.   hon·ey·mooned, hon·ey·moon·ing, hon·ey·moons
To go on a honeymoon.

[Perhaps from a comparison of the moon, which wanes as soon as it is full, to the affections of a newly married couple, which are most tender right after marriage.]
hon'ey·moon'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
honeymoon (period)

and honeymoon stage
  1. n.
    an early stage in any activity, before problems set in. : You'll know the honeymoon period is over when everything seems to go wrong at once. , Of course, this is still the honeymoon stage, but everything seems to be going all right.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

honeymoon 
1546, hony moone, but probably much older, from honey in reference to the new marriage's sweetness, and moon in reference to how long it would probably last, or from the changing aspect of the moon: no sooner full than it begins to wane. Fr. has cognate lune de miel, but Ger. version is flitterwochen (pl.), from flitter "tinsel."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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