eon
See also: Appendix:Variations of "eon"
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age, era”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈi.ɑn/, /ˈeɪ.ɑn/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈiː.ən/, /ˈiː.ɒn/, /ˈeɪ.ɒn/
- (General Australian)
Audio (General Australian): (file)
- Rhymes: -iːɒn, (UK) -iːən
Noun
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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.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]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
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]eon m or n (plural eonen, diminutive eoontje n or eonnetje 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)
- eon; eternity
- (geology) eon, aeon
- (informal, hyperbolically) eon
- A period of 1,000,000,000 years.
- (Gnosticism) eon
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Late Latin aeōn.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]eon m inan
- eon (immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time)
- (geology) eon (longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras)
Declension
[edit]Declension of eon
Noun
[edit]eon m animal
- (Gnosticism) aeon (spirit being emanating from the Godhead)
Declension
[edit]Declension of eon
Further reading
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]eon m (plural eoni)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | eon | eonul | eoni | eonii | |
| genitive-dative | eon | eonului | eoni | eonilor | |
| vocative | eonule | eonilor | |||
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]èōn m (Cyrillic spelling ѐо̄н)
Declension
[edit]Declension of eon
Further reading
[edit]- “eon”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]eon c
Declension
[edit]Declension of eon
References
[edit]- eon in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- eon in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- eon in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
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