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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

... as the launch thrashed along. Alden's profession took him to all corners of the earth. That was why the winter of Fyfe's honeymoon had not made them acquainted. Alden and his wife were then in South America. This visit was to fill in the time before the departure of a trans-Pacific liner which would land ...

— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... Croesus," as he was then familiarly called, fell head over heels in love with the beautiful daughter of the penniless and disestablished clergyman, and during the short space of his courtship and honeymoon he forgot the one thing which had previously absorbed his life—the gaming-table. If his wife had been a good woman, or if she had loved him, he might have stayed his hand from baccarat. But Eleanor had married him simply ...

— The King's Men - A Tale of To-morrow • Robert Grant, John Boyle O'Reilly, J. S. Dale, and John T.

... condition not suddenly, but insensibly and by degrees. Many husbands have even remained unfortunate in their domestic relations during their whole life and have never known it. This domestic revolution develops itself in accordance with fixed rules; for the revolutions of the honeymoon are as regular as the phases of the moon in heaven, and are the same in every married house. Have we not proved that moral nature, like physical nature, ...

— The Physiology of Marriage, Part I. • Honore de Balzac

... forced to marry him; their honeymoon scarcely lasted a fortnight and he treated her shamefully after that. Of course, babies she must bear like any ...

— Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess • Henry W. Fischer

... responded Lucille, "this is their honeymoon, and they are deeply in love with each other. Wait till you get in love with ...

— Iola Leroy - Shadows Uplifted • Frances E.W. Harper

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