English-Finnish translations for boon

Definition of boon

• 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
• gay; merry; jovial; convivial
• The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching

Synonyms

• blessing
• benefit

Examples

• Finding the dry cave was a boon to the weary travellers
• Anaesthetics are a great boon to modern surgery
• boon voyage

Related words

• boonies
• boondoggle
• baboon
• boondocks
• baboonish
• boondock
• Gaboon
• boondaburra
• dog-faced baboon