Boon vs Advantage - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) A prayer; petition.
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(archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a favour; benefaction; a grant; a present.
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* 1872 , (James De Mille), The Cryptogram :
A good; a blessing or benefit; a great privilege; a thing to be thankful for.
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(obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage"
kind; bountiful; benign
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gay; merry; jovial; convivial
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The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
(Webster 1913)
Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.
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(obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians ii. 11
Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
(tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next too to carry the game.
(soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in a advantageous position.
* November 17 2012 , BBC Sport:
Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
* Shakespeare
To provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to.
(reflexive) To do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of.
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Boon is a related term of advantage.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between boon and advantage
is that boon is (obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage" while advantage is (obsolete) superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.As nouns the difference between boon and advantage
is that boon is (obsolete) a prayer; petition or boon can be the woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching while advantage is any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.As an adjective boon
is (obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage".As a verb advantage is
to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to.boon
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- For which to God he made so many an idle boon
- Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above
- I gave you life. Can you not return the boon by giving me death, my lord?
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Synonyms
* blessing * benefitAntonyms
* baneEtymology 2
From (etyl) boon, bone, from .Adjective
(-)- Which Nature boon / Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
- a boon companion, loving his bottle
- --No, Mr Bloom repeated again, I wouldn't personally repose much trust in that boon companion of yours who contributes the humorous element, if I were in your shoes.
Quotations
* Which ... Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain — * A boon companion, loving his bottle —Etymology 3
From Gaelic and Irish via Scots.Noun
(-)Anagrams
* * ----advantage
English
Alternative forms
* advauntage (obsolete)Noun
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- Give me advantage of some brief discourse.
- the advantages of a close alliance
- Lest Satan should get an advantage of us.
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- Webb played an advantage that enabled Cazorla to supply a low cross from the left for Giroud to sweep home first time, despite Gallas and Vertonghen being in close attendance.
- And with advantage means to pay thy love.
Synonyms
* foredeal, benefit, value, edge * vantageAntonyms
* disadvantage, drawbackDerived terms
* advantage ground * advantageous * advantageously * advantageousness * have the advantage * take advantageVerb
(advantag)- No man of courage vouchsafeth to advantage himselfe of that which is common unto many.