Title vs Boon - What's the difference?
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A prefix (honorific) or suffix (post-nominal) added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification. See also
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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, chapter=1 (legal) Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.
In canon law, that by which a beneficiary holds a benefice.
A church to which a priest was ordained, and where he was to reside.
The name of a book, film, musical piece, painting, or other work of art.
A publication.
A section or division of a subject, as of a law or a book.
(mostly, in the plural) A written title, credit, or caption shown with a film, video, or performance.
(bookbinding) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.
The subject of a writing; a short phrase that summarizes the entire topic.
A division of an act of Congress or Parliament.
(sports) The recognition given to the winner of a championship in sports.
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To assign a title to; to entitle.
(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
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The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
(Webster 1913)
Title is a related term of boon.
As nouns the difference between title and boon
is that title is a prefix (honorific) or suffix (post-nominal) added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification see also while 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 a verb title
is to assign a title to; to entitle.As an adjective boon is
(obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage".title
English
(wikipedia title)Noun
(en noun)- With his former title greet Macbeth.
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- Equally disadvantageous to Jackson was the fact that other than the Jacksonville Athletic Club and the National Sporting Club, virtually no organization was willing to sponsor a title fight between a black fighter and a white one.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* abstract of title * end titles * entitle * job title * long title * running title * short title * subtitle * supertitle * surtitle * title character * title track * Torrens title * working titleVerb
(titl)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.
