eon

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English

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Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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, 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.
  5. (geology) The longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras.
  6. (Gnosticism, usually spelled aeon or æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.

Derived terms

Related terms

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

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Dutch

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Related terms

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

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

Noun

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

  • “eon” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Wikipedia nn

Etymology

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

Noun

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

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

Pronunciation

Noun

eon m inan

  1. era
    Synonyms: wiek, era
  2. (geology) aeon (geological time period)
  3. (Gnosticism) aeon (being emanating from the Godhead)

Declension

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

Further reading

  • eon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French éon.

Noun

eon m (plural eoni)

  1. eon

Declension

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

èōn m (Cyrillic spelling ѐо̄н)

  1. eon

Declension

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

Swedish

Noun

eon c

  1. eon; eternity
  2. (geology) eon

Declension

Declension of eon 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative eon eonen eoner eonerna
Genitive eons eonens eoners eonernas

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