noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a boon companion literary (= a very close friend )
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Charles arrived at the house, together with his boon companion Herbert.
boon companion
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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A recently acquired photo-copier has proved a great time-saving boon for note taking.
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It also is a great boon to vegetarians who can cook grains and dried beans in 12 minutes or less.
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The Mormons were given the greatest boon a struggling movement can want, a martyr.
■ NOUN
companion
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She hadn't deserved their kindness, their good wishes - she'd hardly been a boon companion of late.
■ VERB
prove
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During haytime and harvest, the four horses bought from his father-in-law had proved to be a boon .
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That kind of bare-knuckled competition is proving to be a boon to travelers on the World Wide Web.
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A recently acquired photo-copier has proved a great time-saving boon for note taking.
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Yet even in its triumph over human competition, the computer is proving something of a boon to the chess world.
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United's record goalscorer and now director, Bobby Charlton, believes Cantona will prove both a boon and a bargain.
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A new Green Party, therefore, could potentially split the liberal vote and prove a boon to the Republicans.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A recently acquired photo-copier has proved a great time-saving boon for note taking.
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But I would crave a boon for myself and my successors.
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But with careful management the carp can still be a boon to water authorities.
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For some estate agents, though, it is a boon .
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Is snow an environmental boon or a menace?
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It also is a great boon to vegetarians who can cook grains and dried beans in 12 minutes or less.
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The law is a special boon to those, like top corporate honchos, who are due large sums of deferred compensation.
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Their boon is life for ever freed from toil.