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# honey

«honey» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sweet, thick, golden food made by bees from the nectar…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (honey, honeys)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Honey is a sweet, thick, golden food made by bees from the nectar of flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honey/#m1)

2) «Honey» is also a loving name for someone, like «dear» or «sweetie». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honey/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

an amount measured in jars, kilograms or spoons; in science: bees collect nectar, store honey in a honeycomb and need it for food in winter; in everyday life: honey on toast, in tea; in stories: bears love honey; phrases: «as sweet as honey», «honeycomb», «honeybee»

### examples

- A jar holds 500 g of honey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honey/#x1)
- The bees made 12 kg of honey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honey/#x2)
- She uses 2 spoons of honey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honey/#x3)
- How many jars of honey can be filled? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honey/#x4)
- Bees make honey from the nectar of flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honey/#x5)
- I like honey on my toast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honey/#x6)
- Winnie-the-Pooh loves honey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honey/#x7)
- Come here, honey, it's time for bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honey/#x8)
- The beekeeper took the honeycomb from the hive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honey/#x9)

### note

Measured, not counted one by one: jars = amount ÷ per jar (watch units: 1 kg = 1,000 g). Uncountable: some honey, a jar of honey. Safety: babies under one year old should not eat honey.

### In the corpora

- [Bees collect nectar and pollen from flowers; nectar is turned into honey and pollen feeds the young bees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/5/)
- [Honey hardly ever goes off, because it is so sugary and dry that germs cannot grow in it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/16/)
- [Real bears and honey badgers raid bee nests and eat the protein-rich grubs as well as the honey.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/239-bees-the-waggle-dance-the-hive-and-honey/9/)
- [In late summer the beekeeper slices the wax caps off heavy frames and spins the honey out in a drum called an extractor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/6/)
- [And the cartoon bear who eats honey straight from a pot?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «honey» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honey/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.