Soon vs Boon - What's the difference?
soon | boon |
Occurring within a short time, or quickly.
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Within a short time; quickly.
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Readily; willingly; used with would , or some other word expressing will.
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
(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
* 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)
As adjectives the difference between soon and boon
is that soon is occurring within a short time, or quickly while boon is (obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage".As an adverb soon
is (label) immediately, instantly.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.soon
English
(wikipedia soon)Adjective
(er)F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
Adverb
(er)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly,
Subtle effects, passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese
- How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?
- I would as soon see a river winding through woods or in meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical figures at Versailles.
Derived terms
* get well soon * sooner or later * soon enough * soonish * too soonStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----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?
Catherine Clabby
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.