Boon
WordNet
adjective
(1) Very close and convivial
"Boon companions"
noun
(2) A desirable state
"Enjoy the blessings of peace"
"A spanking breeze is a boon to sailors"
WiktionaryText
Etymology 1
From , , from (Danish , Swedish bön), from Germanic. Influenced by French bon, Latin bonus ‘good’.
Noun
- A blessing or benefit.
- Finding the dry cave was a boon to the weary travellers.
- Anaesthetics are a great boon to modern surgery.
- that which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present
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- Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above — James I. 17
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- a prayer or petition
Quotations
- For which to God he made so many an idle boon — Edmund Spenser
Adjective
- good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage"
- kind; bountiful; benign
- gay; merry; jovial; convivial
- He was a boon companion to have around
Quotations
- Which ... Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain — John Milton
- A boon companion, loving his bottle — John Arbuthnot
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