boon
/buːn/ · noun
Meaning
- A prayer; petition.
- That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
- A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.
- An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
- Good; prosperous.
- Kind; bountiful; benign.
- (Now only in boon companion) gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
- The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
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