How do you use the word "honey" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "honey": Sugar replaced honey as a sweetener. Bees provide honey for us.

Honey Meaning

/ˈhʌni/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.

nounA variety of this substance.

Sentence Examples

Sugar replaced honey as a sweetener.

Bees provide honey for us.

Hawaii's really the land of milk and honey.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

dear love beloved

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The bees produced sweet ____ in their hive during summer.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Bees collect nectar from flowers to produce the sweet and golden ____ that we all love.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English hony, honi, from Old English huniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hunag, from Proto-Germanic *hunagą (compare Saterland Frisian Hunich, West Frisian hunich, German Low German Honnig, German Honig), from earlier *hunangą (compare North Frisian honning, hönning, West Frisian huning, Dutch honing, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk honning, Swedish honung, Faroese hunangur, Icelandic hunang), from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂onk-o-s, from *kn̥h₂ónks. Cognate with Middle Welsh canecon (“gold”), Latin canicae pl (“bran”), Tocharian B kronkśe (“bee”), Albanian qengjë (“beehive”), Ancient Greek κνῆκος (knêkos, “safflower”), Northern Kurdish şan (“beehive”), Northern Luri گونج (gonj, “bee”), Finnish hunaja.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The physical properties of the different honeys, color, granulation, aroma, flavor, etc., are indicated in the table only in a very general way." — 1908, United States. Bureau of Chemistry, Bulletin, numbers 110-114:

"If two of the California honeys, western hyssop and fleabane, having a positive polarization at 200 C. are disregarded, then the remaining..." — 1949, Roy A. Grout, editor, The Hive and the Honey Bee:

"Eucalyptus honeys could be characterized based on seven volatile compounds, whereas lavender honeys had only five..." — 2011, Stephen Taylor, Advances in Food and Nutrition Research, volume 62:

"O my love, my wife! / Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath / Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty." — c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], lines 91–93:

"the honey of his language" — 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

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