boon
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Etymology 1[edit]
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.
Noun[edit]
boon (plural boons)
- (obsolete) A prayer; petition.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto VII, stanza 34, page 503:
- 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.
- (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?
- 1881, The Bible (English Revised Version), James 1:17:
- 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.
- (Britain, dialectal) An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
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Etymology 2[edit]
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”).
Adjective[edit]
boon (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Good; prosperous.
- boon voyage
- (archaic) Kind; bountiful; benign.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 4”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- Which […] Nature boon
Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
- Which […] Nature boon
- (now only in boon companion) gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- a boon companion, loving his bottle
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, London: The Egoist Press, published October 1922, OCLC 2297483:Episode 16
- ―No, Mr Bloom repeated again, I wouldn't personally repose much trust in that boon companion of yours who contributes the humorous element, if I were in your shoes.
- Les Misérables (musical), "Master of the House," second and third refrains, fifth line:
- (2) "Everybody's boon companion,
Everybody's chaperon"; (3) "Everybody's boon companion:
Give[s] 'em everything he's got"
- (2) "Everybody's boon companion,
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
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Etymology 3[edit]
From Middle English bone (North), akin to or alteration of Old English bune (“reed”).[1]
Noun[edit]
boon (uncountable)
- The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
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References[edit]
- ^ Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, s.v. ‘boon3’ (NY: Random House, 2001).
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Etymology[edit]
From Dutch boon, from Middle Dutch bône, from Old Dutch *bōna, from Proto-Germanic *baunō.
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Noun[edit]
boon (plural bone, diminutive boontjie)
Descendants[edit]
- → Xhosa: imbotyi (from the diminutive)
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Dutch bône, from Old Dutch *bōna, from Proto-Germanic *baunō.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /boːn/
- (Belgium) IPA(key): [boːn]
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): [boʊ̯n]
- (Netherlands)
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: boon
- Rhymes: -oːn
Noun[edit]
boon f or m (plural bonen, diminutive boontje n)
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- blauwe boon
- bonenkruid
- bruine boon
- cacaoboon
- kidneyboon
- koffieboon
- rumboon
- snijboon
- sojaboon
- sperzieboon
- tuinboon
- witte boon
Descendants[edit]
- Afrikaans: boon
- → Xhosa: imbotyi (from the diminutive)
- → Indonesian: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
- → Papiamentu: bonchi (from the diminutive)
- → Sranan Tongo: bonki (from the diminutive)
Middle English[edit]
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Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from Old Norse bón, from Proto-Germanic *bōniz.
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Noun[edit]
- prayer, supplication, request
- boon, bonus
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Old English bān.
Noun[edit]
boon (plural boons)
- Alternative form of bon
Etymology 3[edit]
Borrowed from Old Northern French boon, from Old French bon (“good”).
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boon
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