Boone

American  

[boon] / bun /

noun

1. Daniel, 1734–1820, American pioneer, especially in Kentucky.

2. Pat, born 1934, U.S. singer.

3. a city in central Iowa.

4. a town in NW North Carolina.

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Boone British  

/ buːn /

noun

1. Daniel . 1734–1820, American pioneer, explorer, and guide, esp in Kentucky

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Example Sentences

Lennon, who’d run elections in Boone County, Missouri, for seven years, had heard the tool might not be accurate.

From Salon

Sometimes I was Daniel Boone; then there would be spells of Davy Crockett, Kit Carson, the Last of the Mohicans, and Tarzan of the Apes.

From Literature

Those include the Pro Bowl Games, a Super Bowl innovation summit, an NFL awards show and a raft of concerts by superstars including Sting, Post Malone, The Killers, Benson Boone and Green Day.

From The Wall Street Journal

This time her 343rd “charge” is a hapless 87-year old CEO oil tycoon K. J. Boone unwilling to pass over from the “baffling country” of terminal illness toward its “inevitable occurrence.”

From Los Angeles Times

Boone, who is nearing the end in his Texas mansion.

From The Wall Street Journal