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Definition of Honey

Honey

  1. A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.
  2. That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey.
  3. Sweet one; -- a term of endearment.
  4. To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.
  5. To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.

Honey Quotations

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
Dale Carnegie

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus Aurelius

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Joseph Joubert
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Honey Translations

honey in Afrikaans is heuning
honey in Danish is honning
honey in Dutch is honing
honey in Finnish is hunaja
honey in French is miel
honey in German is Honig
honey in Italian is miele
honey in Latin is mel mellis
honey in Norwegian is honning
honey in Portuguese is mel
honey in Spanish is miel

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