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eon

See also: Appendix:Variations of "eon"

English

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Alternative forms

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  • aeon (chiefly British or Gnostic)
  • æon (dated, chiefly British or Gnostic)

Etymology

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From Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age, era”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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eon (plural eons)

  1. Eternity, the duration of the universe.
  2. An immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time.
  3. (US, informal, hyperbolic) A long period of time.
    It’s been eons since we last saw each other.
  4. (astronomy, geology) A period of one billion (short scale, i.e. 1,000,000,000) years.
    • 2012 January, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist‎[1], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 November 2012, page 23:
      We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
  6. (geology) The longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras.
  7. (Gnosticism, usually spelled aeon or æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.

Derived terms

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English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ey- (1 c, 0 e)

Translations

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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eon m or n (plural eonen, diminutive eoontje n or eonnetje n)

  1. eon; eternity
  2. (geology) eon, aeon
  3. (informal, hyperbolically) eon
  4. a period of 1,000,000,000 years
  5. (Gnosticism) eon
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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age”).

Noun

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eon n (definite singular eonet, indefinite plural eon or eoner, definite plural eona or eonene)

  1. eon; eternity
  2. (geology) eon, aeon
  3. (informal, hyperbolically) eon
  4. A period of 1,000,000,000 years.
  5. (Gnosticism) eon

References

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  • “eon” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age”).

Noun

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eon n (definite singular eonet, indefinite plural eon, definite plural eona)

  1. eon; eternity
  2. (geology) eon, aeon
  3. (informal, hyperbolically) eon
  4. A period of 1,000,000,000 years.
  5. (Gnosticism) eon

Polish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Late Latin aeōn.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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eon m inan

  1. eon (immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time)
    Synonyms: era, wiek
  2. (geology) eon (longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras)

Declension

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Declension of eon
singular plural
nominative eon eony
genitive eonu eonów
dative eonowi eonom
accusative eon eony
instrumental eonem eonami
locative eonie eonach
vocative eonie eony

Noun

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eon m animal

  1. (Gnosticism) aeon (spirit being emanating from the Godhead)

Declension

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Declension of eon
singular plural
nominative eon eonowie/eoni
genitive eona eonów
dative eonowi eonom
accusative eona eonowie/eoni
instrumental eonem eonami
locative eonie eonach
vocative eonie eonowie/eoni

Further reading

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  • eon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • eon in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French éon.

Noun

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eon m (plural eoni)

  1. eon

Declension

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Declension of eon
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) eon eonul (niște) eoni eonii
genitive/dative (unui) eon eonului (unor) eoni eonilor
vocative eonule eonilor

Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ěoːn/
  • Hyphenation: e‧on

Noun

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èōn m (Cyrillic spelling ѐо̄н)

  1. eon

Declension

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Declension of eon
singular plural
nominative èōn eoni
genitive eóna eona
dative eonu eonima
accusative eon eone
vocative eone eoni
locative eonu eonima
instrumental eonom eonima

Further reading

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  • “eon”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Swedish

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Noun

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eon c

  1. eon; eternity
  2. (geology) eon

Declension

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Declension of eon
nominative genitive
singular indefinite eon eons
definite eonen eonens
plural indefinite eoner eoners
definite eonerna eonernas

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