Usually means: Beneficial gift or timely blessing.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word boon:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. boon: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. boon, boon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boon, boon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Boon, boon: Wordnik
  7. boon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. boon: Wiktionary
  9. boon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. boon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. boon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. boon: Dictionary.com
  13. boon (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. boon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Boon (Pontus), Boon (TV series), Boon (brewery), Boon (game), Boon (novel), Boon (surname), Boon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Boon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. boon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. boon: Rhymezone
  19. Boon, boon (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. boon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. boon: Free Dictionary
  22. boon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Boon, boon: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. boon: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Boon: Investopedia
  2. boon: Legal dictionary
  3. Boon: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. boon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Boon (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. boon, boon, boon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. BooN, Boon: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See booning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.
noun:  (archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
noun:  (obsolete) A prayer; petition.
noun:  (British, dialectal) An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
noun:  (Hindu mythology) A blessing, typically a supernatural power, granted to an ascetic by a god or goddess.
adjective:  (now only in boon companion) Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
adjective:  (archaic) Kind; bountiful; benign.
adjective:  (obsolete) Good; prosperous.
noun:  The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
noun:  A surname
noun:  A township in Warrick County, Indiana, United States, named after settler Ratcliff Boon.
noun:  A township and unincorporated community therein, in Wexford County, Michigan, United States.
noun:  (slang) Clipping of sheboon. [(slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) An ugly, fat or stupid black woman.]

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