Meaning of Boon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A good thing; a thing to be thankful for or to appreciate duly.
2. The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
   uncountable
3. A surname
4. That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
5. A township in Warrick County, Indiana, United States, named after settler Ratcliff Boon.
6. A prayer; petition.
   obsolete
7. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Wexford County, Michigan, United States.
8. An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
   British, dialectal
9. A blessing, typically a supernatural power, granted to an ascetic by a god or goddess.
   Hinduism

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Examples

“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.”

“Diggle Station lies high up in the Pennine Chain, subject to extreme low temperatures. With this and heavy snowfall in the winter months, Diggle bids fair to compete with the Scottish lines under similar weather conditions, and the provision of unfrozen water in the higher ambient temperature of the tunnel must be a boon to harassed engine drivers whose thirsty steeds run short of water up the gruelling 1 in 125 seven-mile climb from Stalybridge.”

“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.”

“Supporters of the measure, which Parliament is expected to vote on next Monday, present it as a boon for democracy: a modest limit on the ways in which an elected government can be stymied by unelected judges, who will in any case still have other tools to overrule ministers.”

“President Joe Biden has declared - approvingly - that a “long war” is ahead between Israel and Hamas. Washington seems to relish long wars, which always prove a boon to its arms industries and a distraction from domestic troubles.”

“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[.]”

“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.”

“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.”

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