eon

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

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

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.ɒn/

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.ən/, /ˈiː.ɒn/
  • Homophone: Ian
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• Rhymes: -iːɒn, (UK) -iːən

eon (plural eons)

1. (US) Eternity.
2. A period of 1,000,000,000 years.
   • 2012 January 1, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 1, 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.

3. (geology) The longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras.
4. (US, informal, hyperbolic) A long period of time.

   It's been eons since we last saw each other.

5. (Gnosticism, usually spelled aeon or æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.

• Archean eon
• eonian
• eonic
• Hadean eon
• light eon
• Phanerozoic eon
• Proterozoic eon
• temporal æon

• -one, NEO, NOE, Neo, Noe, eno-, neo, neo-, one

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

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

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

• eeuw

• neo-

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

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

• “eon” in The Ordnett Dictionary

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.ɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɔn
• Syllabification: e‧on

eon m inan

1. era

   Synonyms: wiek, era

2. (geology) aeon (geological time period)
3. (Gnosticism) aeon (being emanating from the Godhead)

• eon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• eon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From French éon.

eon m (plural eoni)

1. eon

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

èōn m (Cyrillic spelling ѐо̄н)

1. eon

eon c

1. eon; eternity
2. (geology) eon

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