HONEY (honied)

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Irregular inflected form: honied   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does honey mean? 

• HONEY (noun)
  The noun HONEY has 2 senses:

1. a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees

2. a beloved person; used as terms of endearment

  Familiarity information: HONEY used as a noun is rare.

• HONEY (adjective)
  The adjective HONEY has 1 sense:

1. of something having the color of honey

  Familiarity information: HONEY used as an adjective is very rare.

• HONEY (verb)
  The verb HONEY has 1 sense:

1. sweeten with honey

  Familiarity information: HONEY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HONEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sweet yellow liquid produced by bees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("honey" is a kind of...):

sweetener; sweetening (something added to foods to make them taste sweeter)

Holonyms ("honey" is a substance of...):

mead (made of fermented honey and water)

oenomel (wine mixed with honey)

Derivation:

honey (sweeten with honey)

honey (of something having the color of honey)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A beloved person; used as terms of endearment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

beloved; dear; dearest; honey; love

Hypernyms ("honey" is a kind of...):

lover (a person who loves someone or is loved by someone)

• HONEY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of something having the color of honey

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

honey (a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees)

• HONEY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sweeten with honey

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "honey" is one way to...):

dulcify; dulcorate; edulcorate; sweeten (make sweeter in taste)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

honey (a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees)

 Context examples 

The honey bee gut microbiome plays a significant role in metabolism, development and growth, and immune system function and protection against pathogens.

(Species Shifts in the Honey Bee Microbiome Differ with Age and Hive Role, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

And I may get it as sweet and fresh as the wild honey the bee gathers on the moor.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

By following Honeyguides, a species of bird, people in Africa are able to locate bees’ nests to harvest honey.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Further experiments showed that transmissible RNA was able to activate a mechanism called 'RNA interference' to block the activity of some genes and reduce the production of certain honey bee proteins.

(Discovery of RNA transfer through royal jelly could aid development of honey bee vaccines, University of Cambridge)

A supplement containing granules composed of pollen gathered by bees for food and honey.

(Bee Pollen, NCI Thesaurus)

A sweet and viscous fluid produced by honey bees from flower nectar and other plant fluids.

(Honey, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, honey may have a protective and healing effect on the oral mucosa.

(Honey-containing Mouthwash, NCI Thesaurus)

It usually presents in the face with honey colored scabs.

(Impetigo, NCI Thesaurus)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles honey.

(Honey Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

I often got honey out of hollow trees, which I mingled with water, or ate with my bread.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)