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  2. Honeymoon - Wikipedia

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    The honeymoon was originally the period following marriage, "characterized by love and happiness," as attested since 1546. [4] The word may allude to "the idea that the first month of marriage is the sweetest". [5] According to a different version, of the Oxford English Dictionary:

  3. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...

  4. Talk:Honeymoon - Wikipedia

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    2. Moved the paragraph on the French calque up, since related words in other languages may (or may not) have had a historical relationship with the origin of the word. I joined this paragraph with the statements about the Persian term. There is no reference for the Persian term, so one might presume that this too is a calque (a borrowed word).

  5. Honeymoon (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    "Honeymoon", a 1905 poem by Noël Coward; Honeymoon, a 2000 novel by Amy Jenkins; Honeymoon, a 1995 novel by Patrick Modiano; Honeymoon, a novel by James Patterson & Howard Roughan; The Honey Moon, an 1805 play by John Tobin; The Honeymoon, a 1987 novel by Knut Faldbakken; The Honeymoon, a 2004 novel by Justin Haythe

  6. List of English words of Old English origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).

  7. List of English words of Italian origin - Wikipedia

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    The first to use this Italian word was William Shakespeare in Macbeth. Shakespeare introduced a lot of Italian or Latin words into the English language. Assassin and assassination derive from the word hashshashin (Arabic: حشّاشين, ħashshāshīyīn, also hashishin, hashashiyyin, means Assassins), and shares its etymological roots with ...

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  9. Judgement of Paris - Wikipedia

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    Kallistēi is the word of the ancient Greek language inscribed on Eris' Apple of Discord. In Greek, the word is καλλίστῃ (the dative singular of the feminine superlative of καλος, beautiful). Its meaning can be rendered "to the fairest one". Calliste (Καλλίστη; Mod. Gk. Kallisti) is also an ancient name for the isle of Thera.