honey

1. 1.

   of something having the color of honey

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of honey

plural

honeys·

past tense or participle

honied

present participle

honeying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about honey

What does honey mean?

honey means "a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in honey?

honey has 2 syllables: hon-ey. The stress falls on "hon". In IPA it is /ˈhʌni/.

What is another word for honey?

Close synonyms include beloved, dear, dearest, love. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is honey a common word?

honey is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.