The difference between Benefit and Boon

When used as nouns, benefit means an advantage, whereas boon means a prayer.

Benefit is also verb with the meaning: to be or to provide a benefit to.

Boon is also adjective with the meaning: good.

check bellow for the other definitions of Benefit and Boon

  1. Benefit as a noun:

    An advantage; help or aid from something.

    Examples:

    "It was for her benefit. His benefit was free beer."

  2. Benefit as a noun (insurance):

    A payment made in accordance with an insurance policy or a public assistance scheme.

  3. Benefit as a noun:

    An event such as a performance, given to raise funds for some cause.

  4. Benefit as a noun (obsolete):

    beneficence; liberality

    Examples:

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  1. Benefit as a verb (transitive):

    To be or to provide a benefit to.

  2. Benefit as a verb (intransitive):

    To receive a benefit (from); to be a beneficiary.

  1. Boon as a noun (obsolete):

    A prayer; petition.

  2. Boon as a noun (archaic):

    That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.

  3. Boon as a noun:

    A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.

    Examples:

    "Finding the dry cave was a boon to the weary travellers."

    "Anaesthetics are a great boon to modern surgery."

  4. Boon as a noun (UK, _, dialectal):

    An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.

  1. Boon as an adjective (obsolete):

    good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage"

  2. Boon as an adjective:

    kind; bountiful; benign

  3. Boon as an adjective:

    (Fossil word used only in idiom pairing it with subsequent "companion") gay; merry; jovial; convivial

  1. Boon as a noun:

    The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

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