eon
See also: Appendix:Variations of "eon"
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age, era”).
Pronunciation edit
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈi.ɑn/, /ˈeɪ.ɑn/
Audio (US) (file)
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈiː.ən/, /ˈiː.ɒn/, /ˈeɪ.ɒn/
- (General Australian)
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- Rhymes: -iːɒn, (UK) -iːən
Noun edit
eon (plural eons)
- Eternity, the duration of the universe.
- An immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time.
- (US, informal, hyperbolic) A long period of time.
- It’s been eons since we last saw each other.
- (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.
- (geology) The longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras.
- (Gnosticism, usually spelled aeon or æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
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eternity
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period of 1,000,000,000 years
geochronologic unit
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informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time
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a being emanating from the Godhead
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age”).
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Noun edit
eon m or n (plural eonen, diminutive eoontje n)
- eon; eternity
- (geology) eon, aeon
- (informal, hyperbolically) eon
- A period of 1,000,000,000 years.
- (Gnosticism) eon
Related terms edit
Anagrams edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age”).
Noun edit
eon n (definite singular eonet, indefinite plural eon or eoner, definite plural eona or eonene)
- eon; eternity
- (geology) eon, aeon
- (informal, hyperbolically) eon
- A period of 1,000,000,000 years.
- (Gnosticism) eon
References edit
- “eon” in The Ordnett Dictionary
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age”).
Noun edit
eon n (definite singular eonet, indefinite plural eon, definite plural eona)
Polish edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
eon m inan
- era
- (geology) aeon (geological time period)
- (Gnosticism) aeon (being emanating from the Godhead)
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Declension of eon
Further reading edit
- eon in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
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eon m (plural eoni)
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Serbo-Croatian edit
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èōn m (Cyrillic spelling ѐо̄н)
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eon c
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | eon | eonen | eoner | eonerna |
Genitive | eons | eonens | eoners | eonernas |