Definitions for Honey
ˈhʌn ihon·ey

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. honeynoun

   a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees

2. beloved, dear, dearest, honey, loveadjective

   a beloved person; used as terms of endearment

3. honeyverb

   of something having the color of honey

4. honeyverb

   sweeten with honey

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. honeynoun

   A viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees. Often used to sweeten tea or to spread on baked goods.

2. honeynoun

   A variety of this substance.

3. honeynoun

   Something sweet or desirable.

4. honeynoun

   A term of affection.

   Honey, would you take out the trash?

5. honeynoun

   A woman, especially an attractive one.

   Man, there are some fine honeys here tonight!

6. honeyadjective

   Describing a thing involving or resembling honey.

7. honeyadjective

   A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like that of most types of honey.

8. Etymology: honig, from hunig, from hunagan (cf. hunich, Honig), from earlier (cf. honung), from pre-Germanic, from kh₂ónks (gen.) (cf. Middle Welsh canecon ‘gold’, Latin (pl.) canicæ ‘bran’, Tocharian B kronkśe ‘bee’, Albanian qengjë ‘beehive’, Ancient Greek κνηκός ‘pale yellow’).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HONEYnoun

   1.A thick, viscous, fluid substance, of a whitish or yellowish colour, sweet to the taste, soluble in water; and becoming vinous on fermentation, inflammable, liquable by a gentle heat, and of a fragrant smell. We have three kinds of honey: the first and finest is virgin honey, not very firm, and of a fragrant smell: it is the first produce of the swarm, obtained by draining from the combs without pressing. The second is thicker than the first, often almost solid, procured from the combs by pressure: and the worst is the common yellow honey, extracted by heating the combs over the fire, and then pressing them. In the flowers of plants, by certain glands near the basis in the petals, is secreted a sweet juice, which the bee, by means of its probosis or trunk, sucks up, swallows it, flies away with it to the hive, and discharges again from the stomach through the mouth into some of the cells of the comb. The honey thus taken up into the body of the bee, and deposited again into the cells of the comb, is destined for the food of the young offspring; but in hard seasons the bees are sometimes reduced to the necessity of feeding on it themselves, and die of hunger after they have eat it all up. Honey, taken out of the new combs early in the Summer, is vastly preferrable to that taken from the same hive in Autumn. Honey is an excellent pectoral, is detergent, aperient, and diuretick. John Hill Mat. Med.

   Etymology: hunig, Saxon; honig, Dutch; honec, honag, German.

   So work the honey bees,
   Creatures that by a ruling nature teach
   The art of order to a peopled kingdom. William Shakespeare, Hen. V.

   The like contention is found among the Greeks, touching his education and first fostering: some affirm, that he was fed by honey bees. Walter Raleigh, History of the World.

   In ancient time there was a kind of honey, which, either of its own nature, or by art, would grow as hard as sugar, and was not so luscious as ours. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   When the patient is rich, there’s no fear of physicians about him, as thick as wasps to a honey pot. Roger L'Estrange.

   Honey is the most elaborate production of the vegetable kind, being a most exquisite vegetable sope, resolvent of the bile, balsamick and pectoral: honey contains no inflammable spirit, before it has felt the force of fermentation; for by distillation it affords nothing that will burn in the fire. Arbuthn.

   New wine, with honey temper’d milk we bring;
   Then living waters from the crystal spring. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

   2. Sweetness; lusciousness.

   The king hath found
   Matter against him, that for ever mars
   The honey of his language. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
   Is fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall. William Shakespeare.

   3. A name of tenderness; sweet; sweetness.

   Honey, you shall be well desir’d in Cyprus;
   I’ve found great love amongst them. Oh, my sweet,
   I prattle out of fashion, and I dote
   In mine own comfort. William Shakespeare, Othello.

   Why, honey bird, I bought him on purpose for thee: did’st not thou say, thou long’dst for a Christian slave? Dryden.

2. To Honeyverb

   To talk fondly.

   Etymology: from the noun.

   Nay, but to live
   In the rank sweat of an incestuous bed,
   Stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love
   Over the nasty sty. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Honey

   Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of plants (primarily floral nectar) or the secretions of other insects, like the honeydew of aphids. This refinement takes place both within individual bees, through regurgitation and enzymatic activity, as well as during storage in the hive, through water evaporation that concentrates the honey's sugars until it is thick and viscous. Honey bees stockpile honey in the hive. Within the hive is a structure made from wax called honeycomb. The honeycomb is made up of hundreds or thousands of hexagonal cells, into which the bees regurgitate honey for storage. Other honey-producing species of bee store the substance in different structures, such as the pots made of wax and resin used by the stingless bee.Honey for human consumption is collected from wild bee colonies, or from the hives of domesticated bees. The honey produced by honey bees is the most familiar to humans, thanks to its worldwide commercial production and availability. The husbandry of bees is known as beekeeping or apiculture, with the cultivation of stingless bees usually referred to as meliponiculture. Honey is sweet because of its high concentrations of the monosaccharides fructose and glucose. It has about the same relative sweetness as sucrose (table sugar). One standard tablespoon (15 mL) of honey provides around 190 kilojoules (46 kilocalories) of food energy. It has attractive chemical properties for baking and a distinctive flavor when used as a sweetener. Most microorganisms cannot grow in honey and sealed honey therefore does not spoil. Samples of honey discovered in archaeological contexts have proven edible even after thousands of years. Honey use and production has a long and varied history, with its beginnings in prehistoric times. Several cave paintings in Cuevas de la Araña in Spain depict humans foraging for honey at least 8,000 years ago. While Apis melifera is an Old World insect, large-scale meliponiculture of New World stingless bees has been practiced by Mayans since pre-Columbian times.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. honey

   Honey is a sweet, sticky, and viscous substance that is produced by bees from the nectar of flowers. It is commonly used as a natural sweetener and flavoring agent in various food and beverages. Honey has a distinct taste and aroma and is known for its numerous health benefits and medicinal properties.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. Honeynoun

   a sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb

2. Honeynoun

   that which is sweet or pleasant, like honey

3. Honeynoun

   sweet one; -- a term of endearment

4. Honeyverb

   to be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn

5. Honeyverb

   to make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey

6. Etymology: [OE. honi, huni, AS. hunig; akin to OS. honeg, D. & G. honig, OHG. honag, honang, Icel. hunang, Sw. hning, Dan. honning, cf. Gr. ko`nis dust, Skr. kaa grain.]

WikidataRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Honey

   Honey is a sweet food made by bees using nectar from flowers. The variety produced by honey bees is the one most commonly referred to, as it is the type of honey collected by beekeepers and consumed by humans. Honey produced by other bees and insects has distinctly different properties. Honey bees transform nectar into honey by a process of regurgitation and evaporation. They store it as a primary food source in wax honeycombs inside the beehive. Honey gets its sweetness from the monosaccharides fructose and glucose, and has approximately the same relative sweetness as that of granulated sugar. It has attractive chemical properties for baking and a distinctive flavor that leads some people to prefer it over sugar and other sweeteners. Most microorganisms do not grow in honey because of its low water activity of 0.6. However, honey sometimes contains dormant endospores of the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, which can be dangerous to infants, as the endospores can transform into toxin-producing bacteria in infants' immature intestinal tracts, leading to illness and even death. Honey has a long history of human consumption, and is used in various foods and beverages as a sweetener and flavoring. It also has a role in religion and symbolism. Flavors of honey vary based on the nectar source, and various types and grades of honey are available. It is also used in various medicinal traditions to treat ailments. The study of pollens and spores in raw honey can determine floral sources of honey. Bees carry an electrostatic charge whereby they attract other particles in addition to pollen, which become incorporated into their honey; the honey can be analysed by the techniques of melissopalynology in area environmental studies of radioactive particles, dust and particulate pollution.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Honey

   hun′i, n. a sweet, thick fluid collected by bees from the flowers of plants: anything sweet like honey.—v.t. to sweeten: to make agreeable:—pr.p. hon′eying; pa.p. hon′eyed (-′id).—adj. (Shak.) sweet.—ns. Hon′ey-bag, an enlargement of the alimentary canal of the bee in which it carries its load of honey; Hon′eybear, a South American carnivorous mammal about the size of a cat, with a long protrusive tongue, which it uses to rob the nests of wild bees; Hon′ey-bee, the hive-bee; Hon′ey-buzz′ard, a genus of buzzards or falcons, so called from their feeding on bees, wasps, &c.; Hon′eycomb, a comb or mass of waxy cells formed by bees, in which they store their honey: anything like a honeycomb.—v.t. to fill with cells: to perforate.—adj. Hon′eycombed (-kōmd), formed like a honeycomb.—ns. Hon′ey-crock (Spens.), a crock or pot of honey; Hon′eydew, a sugary secretion from the leaves of plants in hot weather: a fine sort of tobacco moistened with molasses.—adjs. Hon′eyed, Hon′ied, covered with honey: sweet: flattering; Hon′eyless, destitute of honey.—ns. Hon′ey-guide, -indicator, a genus of African birds supposed to guide men to honey by hopping from tree to tree with a peculiar cry; Hon′ey-lō′cust, an ornamental North American tree; Hon′eymoon, Hon′eymonth, the first month after marriage, commonly spent in travelling, before settling down to the business of life.—v.i. to keep one's honeymoon.—adj. Hon′ey-mouthed, having a honeyed mouth or speech: soft or smooth in speech.—ns. Hon′ey-stalk, prob. the flower of the clover; Hon′ey-suck′er, a large family of Australian birds; Hon′eysuckle, a climbing shrub with beautiful cream-coloured flowers, so named because honey is readily sucked from the flower.—adjs. Hon′ey-sweet, sweet as honey; Hon′ey-tongued, having a honeyed tongue or speech: soft or pleasing in speech.—Virgin honey, honey that flows of itself from the comb; Wild honey, honey made by wild bees. [A.S. hunig; Ger. honig, Ice. hunang.]

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Honey

   A sweet viscous liquid food, produced in the honey sacs of various bees from nectar collected from flowers. The nectar is ripened into honey by inversion of its sucrose sugar into fructose and glucose. It is somewhat acidic and has mild antiseptic properties, being sometimes used in the treatment of burns and lacerations.

CrunchBaseRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Honey

   Honey is an enterprise social network that improves information sharing in the workplace. It's a beautiful intranet that people actually want to use to discover, discuss and archive information that matters. Hundreds of companies are using Honey to share knowledge and increase employee engagement.Honey was founded in 2012 and incubated at Huge Labs with funding from Interpublic Group. It is operated by Front & Main LLC in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. honeynoun

   Female, generally attractive. 2003 Hip-Hop Motion Picture with Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer, Missy Elliott, Ginuwine, Jadakiss, etc.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. honey

   A type of food and product.

   Honey is created, produced and processed on a global scale.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on December 2, 2016  

2. ---

   honey

   A type of food created and produced by a variety of bees and other insects.

   Honey is produced by bumblebees, stingless bees, and other hymenopteran insects such as honey wasps, though the quantity is generally lower and they have different properties compared with honey from the genus Apis.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on December 2, 2016  

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HONEY

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Honey is ranked #10897 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Honey surname appeared 2,923 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Honey.
   
   86.3% or 2,523 total occurrences were White.
   7.3% or 214 total occurrences were Black.
   2.6% or 76 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.2% or 66 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.9% or 27 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.5% or 17 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Sweeten
   • Sweetening

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Honey' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4596

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Honey' in Nouns Frequency: #2875

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How to pronounce Honey?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Honey in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Honey in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Honey in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Honey in a Sentence

1. Scott C. Holstad:

   a beautiful girl spoke to me today thru little honey’d whispers dreaming icicles streams of words mouth moving saying much in little tones traveling passionately into distant lands far off hopes stranger’s arms a hoped-for death told her secret

2. Proverb:

   Honey in his mouth, knives in his heart.

3. Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe:

   The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.

4. Sadie Robertson:

   We’ve seen Honey a few times, especially Lisa, she's such a baby nut, so every opportunity she has to make a lasagna or take something to their house, she's over there so she can hug all on our little wonder woman.

5. Barry Morphew:

   Oh Suzanne, if anyone is out there that can hear this, that has you. Please well do whatever it takes to bring you back. We love you. We miss you. Your girls need you. No questions asked, however much they want. I will do whatever it takes to get you back. Honey, I love you and I want you back so bad.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Honey
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Honey
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Honey
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Honey
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Honey
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Honey
9. ^ CrunchBase
   https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/honey
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
11. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Honey