Boon
[buːn] or [bʊn]
Definition
(n.) A prayer or petition.
(n.) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present.
(n.) Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage.
(n.) Kind; bountiful; benign.
(n.) Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
(n.) The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
Checker: Thelma
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Gift, present, benefaction, grant, offering.
a. [1]. Kind, bountiful, generous.[2]. Gay, merry, jovial, jolly, convivial.
Typed by Jerry
Definition
adj. gay merry or kind.
n. a petition: a gift or favour.
Editor: Sheldon
Examples
- Why, hermit, was the yeoman's first question as soon as he beheld the knight, what boon companion hast thou here? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- No greater boon could I ask, no greater honour could I crave, no greater happiness could I hope. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- A boon', a boon', quoth Earl' Mar-shal', And fell' on his bend'-ded knee', That what'-so-e'er' the queen' shall say', No harm' there-of' may be'. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- You really are a Boon, you know. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- What a noble boon, worthy the giver, is the imagination! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It does not say, Intercede for us, through the Saviour, with the Father, for this boon, but Blessed Peter, give it us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And a State may get on without cobblers; but when the guardians degenerate into boon companions, then the ruin is complete. Plato. The Republic.
- The boon companion of the colossal elephant was a common cat! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Thus many artesian wells have been sunk in the Algerian Sahara which have proved an immense boon to the district. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He asked, he urged, he claimed the boon of a brand snatched from the burning. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Still, on the whole, it is possible to be too boastful even of that boon. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And now to my boon, said the King, which I ask not with one jot the less confidence, that thou hast refused to acknowledge my lawful sovereignty. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Jenner in 1798 for the first time announced his discovery of this great boon to the human race. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- If you wish to offer me a gift, a parting present, a keepsake, you must change the boon. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But this boon to Ireland, it is to be hoped, has been granted under more fortunate auspices than all those to America. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The representatives of New York could with justice drink the health of the young inventor, whose system is one of the greatest boons the city has ever had conferred upon it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Some such boons as these were the best which Fortune allotted to poor little Amelia. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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