honey
Forms
- Plural
- honeys
- Comparative
- honeyer
- Superlative
- honeyest
- present (v1)
- honey
- past (v2)
- honeyed
- past participle (v3)
- honeyed
- present participle
- honeying
- 3rd person singular
- honeys
Definitions
1.A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
- The honey in the pot should last for years.
2.A variety of this substance.
- Eucalyptus honeys could be characterized based on seven volatile compounds, whereas lavender honeys had only five..
- If two of the California honeys, western hyssop and fleabane, having a positive polarization at 200 C. are disregarded, then the remaining..
- The physical properties of the different honeys, color, granulation, aroma, flavor, etc., are indicated in the table only in a very general way.
3.Something sweet or desirable.
- Tom uses honey instead of sugar.
4.A term of affection.
- Honey, would you take out the trash?
- "So far, so good.. are you doing okay?" "Flying.. is awesome!" "Focus, honey."
1.To sweeten; to make agreeable.
1.Involving or resembling honey.
- Have you tried Fuller's(?) organic honey beer? It's much, much nicer than Waggledance. Honeyer. Mmmm.
- So work the honey-bees, / Creatures that by a rule in nature teach / The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
- The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad speaks of the ātman as the honey (madhu) and as the “honiest” of all the honeys.
2.Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like most types of honey.
3.Honey-sweet.
- No man has any business to say that his boy is honier than he was, or is.
- Then this guy stalled at my desk, fishing for his wallet, giving me the honeyest smile.
- MEETHAN MADHU NE MEETHA MEHULA RE LOL, ETHI MEETHEE TE MORI MAT RE, JANANEE NI JOD SAKHI !
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1683
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Synonyms
Etymology
From Middle English hony, honi, from Old English huniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hunag, from Proto-Germanic *hunagą (compare Saterland Frisian Hunich, West Frisian hunich, German Low German Honnig, German Honig), from earlier *hunangą (compare North Frisian honning, hönning, West Frisian huning, Dutch honing, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk honning, Swedish honung, Faroese hunangur, Icelandic hunang), from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂onk-o-s, from *kn̥h₂ónks.