boon
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- //buːn//
A good thing; a thing to be thankful for or to appreciate duly.
sustantivo
- 1
A good thing; a thing to be thankful for or to appreciate duly.
Near-synonyms: gift; blessing, benefit; see also Thesaurus:gift
Finding the dry cave was a boon to the weary travellers.
Anaesthetics are a great boon to modern surgery.
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.
- 2
That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
I gave you life. Can you not return the boon by giving me death, my lord?
Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.
[T]he hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man[.]
- 3
obsoletoA prayer; petition.
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.
- 4
An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
- 5
A blessing, typically a supernatural power, granted to an ascetic by a god or goddess.
A telling story is that of Vikra, who, after practicing severe tapas for many years, called on Śiva, asking him to grant the boon that whosoever's head he would touch, that person would die instantly.
Etimología
From Middle English boon (“prayer”), from Old Norse bón (“prayer, petition”), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“supplication”), influenced by boon (“good, favorable”, adjective). Doublet of ben; see there for more.
adjetivo
- 1
Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
Greedily ſhe ingorg’d without restraint, / And knew not eating Death: Satiate at length, / And hight’nd as with Wine, jocond and boon, / Thus to herſelf ſhe pleaſingly began.
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I’m a lonely old man; I lead a life that I don’t like, among boon companions, who make me melancholy.
―No, Mr Bloom repeated again, I wouldn’t personally repose much trust in that boon companion of yours who contributes the humorous element, Dr Mulligan, as a guide, philosopher, and friend, if I were in your shoes.
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arcaicoKind; bountiful; benign.
With mazie error under pendant ſhades / Ran Nectar, viſiting each plant, and fed /Flours worthy of Paradiſe which not nice Art / In Beds and curious Knots, but Nature boon / Powrd forth profuſe on Hill and Dale and Plaine, / […]
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obsoletoGood; prosperous.
boon voyage
Etimología
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *dwenos Old Latin duenos Old Latin duonus Latin bonus Old French bon Old Northern French boonbor. Middle English boon English boon 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”).
sustantivo
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The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
Etimología
From Middle English bone (“reed, stem, husk”), akin to or alteration of Old English bune (“reed; drinking cup”).
Formas
- plural
- boons
- comparativo
- booner
- superlativo
- boonest
boon · A good thing; a thing to be thankful for or to appreciate duly.
Boon · A surnameBoone · A surname.boop · A low-pitched beeping sound.