Pronunciation
- IPA: /buːn/
boon (plural boons)
- (obsolete) A prayer; petition.
- For which to God he made so many an idle boon […]
- (archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
- 1881, The Bible (English Revised Version), James 1:17:
- Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above […]
- 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram:[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/4/3/28435/28435-h/28435-h.htm ]
- I gave you life. Can you not return the boon by giving me death, my lord?
- 1881, The Bible (English Revised Version), James 1:17:
- A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.
- Finding the dry cave was a boon to the weary travellers.
- Anaesthetics are a great boon to modern surgery.
- (UK dialectal) An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
- French: aubaine
- German: Segen, Wohltat, Gnade, Gunst
- Portuguese: bênção
- Russian: бла́го
- Spanish: bendición, ventaja
boon (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Good; prosperous.
- boon voyage
- Kind; bountiful; benign.
- John Milton
- Which […] Nature boon / Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
- John Milton
- Now only in boon companion: gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
- John Arbuthnot
- a boon companion, loving his bottle
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630 ↗; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483 ↗:Episode 16
- --No, Mr Bloom repeated again, I wouldn't personally repose much trust in that boon companion of yours who contributes the humorous element, if I were in your shoes.
- Les Misérables (musical), "Master of the House," second and third refrains, fifth line:
- (2) "Everybody's boon companion, / Everybody's chaperon#French|chaperon"; (3) "Everybody's boon companion: / Give[s] 'em everything he's got"
- John Arbuthnot
- Russian: до́брый
- Russian: весёлый
boon (uncountable)
- The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
- shive#Etymology_2|shive, shove
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