English Dictionary

boon

IPA（発音記号）

/buːn/

名詞

廃用 古語 イギリス英語 方言

(obsolete) A prayer; petition. / (archaic) 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.

日本語の意味

（古語）祈り、嘆願 / （古語）求められたり与えられたりする恩恵や恩恵としての贈り物 / 良いこと、祝福、恩恵、感謝すべき事柄

At the old chapel, the villagers gathered while the elder intoned a solemn boon for the safe return of the sailors.

古い礼拝堂で、村人たちは長老が船乗りたちの無事な帰還を願って厳かな祈りを唱えるのを見守った。

意味（1）

(obsolete) A prayer; petition.

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.

意味（2）

(archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.

Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above …

意味（3）

A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.

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.

意味（4）

(Britain, dialectal) An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.

boons （ plural ）