Definition of Boon

Pronunciation: bŌn
n.1.A prayer or petition.
For which to God he made so many an idle boon.
- Spenser.
2.That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present.
Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above.
- James i. 17 (Rev. Ver. ).
a.1.Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage.
2.Kind; bountiful; benign.
Which . . . Nature boon
Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
- Milton.
3.Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
A boon companion, loving his bottle.
- Arbuthnot.
n.1.The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.


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advantage, avail, award, behalf, behoof, benediction, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, benison, blithe, blithesome, compliment, convivial, favor, festive, free and easy, gain, gay, gleeful, good, grace, gratuity, hail-fellow-well-met, hearty, interest, jocund, jovial, largess, loaves and fishes, manna, manna from heaven, mirthful, present, profit, reward, welfare, well-being, world of good

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