Wiktionary

boon

See also: boon- and Boon

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /buːn/
  • Audio (RP)(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːn

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English boon (“prayer”), from Old Norse bón (“prayer, petition”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”), influenced by boon (“good, favorable”, adj). Doublet of ben; see there for more.

NounEdit

boon (plural boons)

  1. (obsolete) A prayer; petition.
  2. (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:[1]
      I gave you life. Can you not return the boon by giving me death, my lord?
  3. A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.
    • 2013 July–August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
      Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. [...] A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
    Finding the dry cave was a boon to the weary travellers.
    Anaesthetics are a great boon to modern surgery.
  4. (Britain, dialectal) An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
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Etymology 2Edit

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”).

AdjectiveEdit

boon (comparative booner, superlative boonest)

  1. (obsolete) Good; prosperous.
    boon voyage
  2. (archaic) Kind; bountiful; benign.
  3. (now only in boon companion) gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
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Etymology 3Edit

From Middle English bone (North), akin to or alteration of Old English bune (“reed”).[1]

NounEdit

boon (uncountable)

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

Etymology 4Edit

NounEdit

boon (plural boons)

  1. (slang) Clipping of sheboon.
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ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, s.v. ‘boon3’ (NY: Random House, 2001).

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AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Dutch boon, from Middle Dutch bône, from Old Dutch *bōna, from Proto-Germanic *baunō.

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boon (plural bone, diminutive boontjie)

  1. bean

DescendantsEdit

  • → Xhosa: imbotyi (from the diminutive)

DutchEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Middle Dutch bône, from Old Dutch *bōna, from Proto-Germanic *baunō.

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boon f or m (plural bonen, diminutive boontje n)

  1. bean

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Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from Old Norse bón, from Proto-Germanic *bōniz.

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boon (plural boons or boonen)

  1. prayer, supplication, request
  2. boon, bonus
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Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from Old Northern French boon, from Old French bon (“good”).

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boon

  1. good
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Etymology 3Edit

NounEdit

boon (plural boons)

  1. Alternative form of bon
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