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boon

noun
/buːn/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *dwenos Old Latin duenos Old Latin duonus Latin bonus Old French bon Old Northern French boonbor. Middle English boon English boon From Middle English boon, bone, borrowed from Old Northern French boon, from Old French bon (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duonus, dvenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dū- (“to respect”).

  1. derived from *dū-✻
  2. derived from duonus
  3. derived from bonus
  4. derived from bon
  5. derived from boon
  6. inherited from boon

Definitions

  1. A good thing

    A good thing; a thing to be thankful for or to appreciate duly.

    • Near-synonyms: gift; blessing, benefit; see also Thesaurus:gift
    • Finding the dry cave was a boon to the weary travellers.
    • Anaesthetics are a great boon to modern surgery.

  2. That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor

    That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.

    • I gave you life. Can you not return the boon by giving me death, my lord?
    • Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.
    • [T]he hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man[.]

  3. A prayer

    A prayer; petition.

    • The wofull husbandman doth lowd complaine, / To ſee his whole yeares labor loſt ſo ſoone, / For which to God he made ſo many an idle boone.
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.

    2. A blessing, typically a supernatural power, granted to an ascetic by a god or goddess.

      • A telling story is that of Vikra, who, after practicing severe tapas for many years, called on Śiva, asking him to grant the boon that whosoever's head he would touch, that person would die instantly.

    3. Gay

      Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.

      • Greedily ſhe ingorg’d without restraint, / And knew not eating Death: Satiate at length, / And hight’nd as with Wine, jocond and boon, / Thus to herſelf ſhe pleaſingly began.
      • I knovv the Infirmity of our Family; vve are apt to play the Boon-Companion, and throvv avvay our Money in our Cups: […]
      • I’m a lonely old man; I lead a life that I don’t like, among boon companions, who make me melancholy.

    4. Kind

      Kind; bountiful; benign.

      • With mazie error under pendant ſhades / Ran Nectar, viſiting each plant, and fed /Flours worthy of Paradiſe which not nice Art / In Beds and curious Knots, but Nature boon / Powrd forth profuſe on Hill and Dale and Plaine, / […]

    5. Good

      Good; prosperous.

      • boon voyage

    6. The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking,…

      The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

    7. A surname

    8. A township in Warrick County, Indiana, United States, named after settler Ratcliff Boon.

    9. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Wexford County, Michigan, United…

      A township and unincorporated community therein, in Wexford County, Michigan, United States.

The neighborhood

Derived

boon and bane, boonless, boon or bane, ace boon coon, boon companion

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for boon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA