honeymoon

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I'm not going to be learning anything about cameras on my honeymoon, my honeymoon is the 2nd week of May, if I can't learn the majority of my camera in 2 months I probably never will.

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  1. noun A holiday or trip taken by a newly married couple.
  2. noun An early harmonious period in a relationship: The honeymoon between the new President and the press was soon over.
  3. intransitive verb To go on a honeymoon.

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  • As we got into the car—the honeymoon was another Western tradition we were adopting—I asked if anyone had remembered to inform my parents. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier has been given the benefit of the doubt for four years in a Columbia and the honeymoon is a officially over. —  Scout.com > CollegeFootballNews.com
  • Then, keep in mind that hotels provide all sorts of services on request, therefore, if you want to pamper yourself, the honeymoon could be the right time to start. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • "Since nearly all of the decline came among Republicans, this doesn't indicate that the honeymoon is already over," said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director. —  The Moderate Voice
  • In fact, the most dominant memory of her honeymoon is the slowly shifting hands on the face of a clock in the couple's cheap "honeymoon suite" in Colorado. —  Bookslut
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  1. 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.

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  1. from honey + moon, ‘month.’ Cf. honeymonth.
  2. from honeymoon, n.
 

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/ˈhənɪmun/
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