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honeymoon
What does honeymoon mean?
honeymoon (verb): spend a holiday after one's marriage.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce honeymoon?
/ˈhʌniˌmun/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does honeymoon come from?
From earlier hony moone, originally denoting the period of time following a wedding, equivalent to honey + moon.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “honeymoon” mean?
expose to a chance of loss or damage
Not quite: that's what risk means.
to agree; to be equal; to correspond
Not quite: that's what match means.
spend a holiday after one's marriage
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put an end to a state or an activity
Not quite: that's what quit means.
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