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Boon

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1500, OED Evaluation: N/A

A favour, a gift, a thing freely or graciously bestowed

ExampleMeaning
And- well, we call it the Olympic-pool. The Donald- the Summerville-Pool at the bottom of Woodbine-Avenue. And that was a big boon for the community is to have those beautiful pools open up. And of course, it was free-of-charge. And so I remember like, you-know, we would just go there for when it opened at ten in the morning, come home for lunch, go back.
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So you accept his love. And so they lived by his rules and received boons for it and he promised like they would be the ones to come up on top.
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Speaker: By this time I was married and- yeah, in forty-eight when we got hydro. Interviewer: Yeah, yeah. Speaker: That was a big boon.
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