honeymoon
n. countablen. a holiday taken by a couple who have just gotten married. It can also mean the early, happy period of a new relationship or project.
n. a holiday spent together by a newly married couple. In a figurative sense, it refers to an initial period of harmony or goodwill at the start of a new relationship, job, or political term.
They went to Italy for their honeymoon.
After the wedding, the couple spent a two-week honeymoon at a quiet resort in the mountains.
The new prime minister enjoyed a brief honeymoon with the press, but the positive coverage quickly faded as the economic reality of the new policies became clear to the public.
From earlier hony moone, originally denoting the period of time following a wedding, equivalent to honey + moon. The original reference was to affection waning like the moon, but later the sense became "the first month, or moon after marriage", which tends to be the sweetest. Compare Middle Low German suckermânt (“honeymoon”, literally “sugar-month”), German Low German Hönnigweken (“honeymoon”, literally “honey-weeks”). The German Honigmond (literally “honey-moon”) is a calque of French lune de miel, itself a calque of the English term.
Often used as a modifier before another noun, such as 'honeymoon period' or 'honeymoon suite'.