honeymooner

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English honeymoon

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English honeymooner

From honeymoon + -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhʌn.iˌmunə/
• (US) enPR: ər, IPA^(key): /ˈhʌn.iˌmunɚ/

Noun

honeymooner (plural honeymooners)

1. A person currently on their honeymoon.
   • 2025 November 26, Fang Yongrui (pseudonym), “Tourism as Treason: Pastor Sun Chenghao Sentenced to Four and a Half Years for a Trip”, in Bitter Winter‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 November 2025:

     It begins, as so many Chinese legal dramas do, with a perfectly ordinary act. A pastor buys a plane ticket, passes through customs, and takes his friends to South Korea’s Jeju Island—a visa‑free paradise better known for honeymooners than dissidents. They return home, suntanned and unscathed. Months later, the pastor is in shackles, accused of “organizing others to cross the national border illegally.”