different between charter vs boon

English

Alternative forms

• chartre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English charter, chartre, borrowed from Old French chartre, from Latin chartula (diminutive of charta). See chart. Doublet of chartula.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t????t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t????t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?(?)
• Hyphenation: char?ter

Noun

charter (plural charters)

1. A document issued by some authority, creating a public or private institution, and defining its purposes and privileges.
2. A similar document conferring rights and privileges on a person, corporation etc.
3. A contract for the commercial leasing of a vessel, or space on a vessel.
4. The temporary hiring or leasing of a vehicle.
5. A deed (legal contract).
6. A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.
7. (Britain, derogatory, in a noun phrase with another noun which is either an agent or action) a provision whose unintended consequence would be to encourage an undesirable activity
   • 2001 March 23, Clare Dyer "Stolen car ruling 'a thieves' charter'", The Guardian, London:

     In what Derbyshire police say amounts to a "thieves' charter," three judges ruled that because the car's identity had been changed it was impossible to trace the legal owner and therefore the person found in possession of it was entitled to keep it.

   • 2005 November 30, Stephen Foley "The market where 'caveat emptor' has become a charter for fraud" The Independent, London

Descendants

• ? Bulgarian: ?????? (?art?r)
• ? Dutch: charter
• ? Estonian: tšarter
• ? French: charter
• ? Italian: charter
• ? Japanese: ?????
• ? Polish: czarter
• ? Russian: ?????? (?arter)
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ??????

  Latin: ?arter

• ? Spanish: charter, chárter
• ? Swedish: charter
• ? Turkish: charter
• ? Uzbek: charter

Translations

Adjective

charter (not comparable)

1. Leased or hired.

Translations

Verb

charter (third-person singular simple present charters, present participle chartering, simple past and past participle chartered)

1. (transitive) To grant or establish a charter.
2. (transitive) To lease or hire something by charter.
3. (transitive, Canada, law) (of a peace officer) To inform (an arrestee) of their constitutional rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms upon arrest.

Translations

See also

• charter school

Anagrams

• charret, chartre, rechart

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English charter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.t??/

Noun

charter m (plural charters)

1. a charter flight
2. a charter plane
3. a charter pilot

Further reading

• “charter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• châtrer

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English charter.

Noun

charter m (invariable)

1. Charter plane or flight

Adjective

charter (invariable)

1. (relational) charter

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English charter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??a?te?/, [?t??a?.t?e?]

Noun

charter m (plural charteres)

1. a shuttlebus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?n/
• Rhymes: -u?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English boon (“prayer”), from Old Norse bón (“prayer, petition”), from Proto-Germanic *b?niz (“supplication”), influenced by boon (“good, favorable”, adj). Doublet of ben; see there for more.

Noun

boon (plural boons)

1. (obsolete) A prayer; petition.
2. (archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
   • 1881, The Bible (English Revised Version), James 1:17:

     Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above [...]

   • 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram:^[1]

     I gave you life. Can you not return the boon by giving me death, my lord?

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

4. (Britain, dialectal) An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.

Synonyms

• (a thing received) See gift and favor
• (a good thing) blessing; benefit

Antonyms

• bane

Translations

See also

• boon and bane
• boon or bane

Etymology 2

From Middle English boon, bone, borrowed from Old Northern French boon, from Old French bon (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duonus, dvenos, from Proto-Indo-European *d?- (“to respect”).

Adjective

boon (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Good; prosperous.

2. (archaic) Kind; bountiful; benign.

   • Which […] Nature boon / Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.

3. (now only in boon companion) gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull

     a boon companion, loving his bottle

   • Episode 16

     ?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.

   • Les Misérables (musical), "Master of the House," second and third refrains, fifth line:

     (2) "Everybody's boon companion, / Everybody's chaperon"; (3) "Everybody's boon companion: / Give[s] 'em everything he's got"

Related terms

• bounty

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English bone (North), akin to or alteration of Old English bune (“reed”).

Noun

boon (uncountable)

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

Synonyms

• shive, shove

References

Anagrams

• Bono, NOBO, Obon, noob

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch boon, from Middle Dutch bône, from Old Dutch *b?na, from Proto-Germanic *baun?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???n/

Noun

boon (plural bone, diminutive boontjie)

1. bean

Descendants

• ? Xhosa: imbotyi (from the diminutive)

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bône, from Old Dutch *b?na, from Proto-Germanic *baun?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo?n/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): [bo?n]
• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): [bo??n]
• (Netherlands)
• Hyphenation: boon
• Rhymes: -o?n

Noun

boon f or m (plural bonen, diminutive boontje n)

1. bean

Hypernyms

• peulvrucht

Derived terms

• blauwe boon
• bonenkruid
• bruine boon
• cacaoboon
• kidneyboon
• koffieboon
• rumboon
• snijboon
• sojaboon
• sperzieboon
• tuinboon
• witte boon

Descendants

• Afrikaans: boon
  • ? Xhosa: imbotyi (from the diminutive)
• ? Indonesian: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
• ? Javanese: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
• ? Papiamentu: bonchi (from the diminutive)
• ? Sranan Tongo: bonki (from the diminutive)

Middle English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo?n/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Norse bón, from Proto-Germanic *b?niz.

Alternative forms

• bone

Noun

boon (plural boons or boonen)

1. prayer, supplication, request
2. boon, bonus

Descendants

• English: boon
• Scots: boon

Etymology 2

From Old English b?n.

Noun

boon (plural boons)

1. Alternative form of bon

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Old Northern French boon, from Old French bon (“good”).

Alternative forms

• bone

Adjective

boon

1. good

Descendants

• English: boon