honey
- Top 5000
Sense 1
- noun
- A2
A thick sweet golden liquid that bees make from flowers, eaten on bread or stirred into drinks.
Bees turn the nectar from flowers into honey inside the hive.
A spoonful of honey in warm tea helps my sore throat.
The honey in the jar had gone thick and cloudy.
He drizzled honey over his yoghurt and some chopped nuts.
Common collocations: a jar of honey · a spoonful of honey · clear honey · wild honey · honey and lemon · spread honey on toast
Sense 2 · less common
- noun
- B1
A warm, loving name you use when you speak to someone you love, or in some places to a customer or a stranger.
Honey, have you seen my car keys anywhere this morning?
Thanks, honey, that was exactly what I needed to hear.
She calls everyone honey, even people she has just met.
Common collocations: hi honey · thanks, honey · honey, I'm home · oh honey
Part of: Relationships, Talking to people