Aid vs Boon - What's the difference?
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Help; assistance; succor, relief.
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A helper; an assistant.
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*:It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself.
Something which helps; a material source of help.
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(lb) An exchequer loan.
(lb) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.
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To (give) support (to); to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
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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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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
* Milton
gay; merry; jovial; convivial
* Arbuthnot
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The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
(Webster 1913)
Aid is a related term of boon.
As a proper noun aid
is .As a noun 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.As an adjective boon is
(obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage".aid
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) aide, from (etyl) . Cognate include Spanish ayuda, Portuguese ajuda and Italian aiutoNoun
(en noun)The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone
Derived terms
* aid climbing * aidful * aidless * aidman * first aid * hearing aidEtymology 2
From (etyl) aidier (modern aider), from (etyl) adiuto'', frequentative of ''adiuvo "to assist".Verb
(en verb)- You speedy helpers Appear and aid me in this enterprise.
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Synonyms
* assist * befriend * bestand * cooperate * help * promote * relieve * succor * support * sustainDerived terms
* aidable * aidance * aiderAnagrams
* ---- ==Võro==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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Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
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.