boon

noun · adjectiveA1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

boons

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.
Đồng nghĩa: gift, blessing, benefit, benefaction, boon, concession, donative, fairing, gift, grant, present, tithing
2.
That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
3.
(obsolete)A prayer; petition.
4.
(British, dialectal)An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
5.
(Hinduism)A blessing, typically a supernatural power, granted to an ascetic by a god or goddess.
6.
(uncountable)The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

booner

Superlative

boonest

1.
(now only in boon companion) Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
(2) "Everybody's boon companion, / Everybody's chaperon"; (3) "Everybody's boon companion: / Give[s] 'em everything he's got"
2.
(archaic)Kind; bountiful; benign.
3.
(obsolete)Good; prosperous.
boon voyage

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

gift blessing benefit benefaction concession donativefairinggrant present tithingshive, shove

Trái nghĩa

banebane#Noun

Cùng gốc / liên quan

boonlessboon and baneboon or banebounty

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English boon (prayer), from Old Norse bón (prayer, petition), from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (supplication), influenced by boon (good, favorable). ben; see there for more.