Boon: Definition and part of speech

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Boon

  1. n. The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
  2. n. A prayer or petition.
  3. n. That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present.
  4. n. Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage.
  5. n. Kind; bountiful; benign.
  6. n. Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.

    7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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