eon

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Scrabble points
3
Words With Friends
4
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/ˈi.ɑn/(US)
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/ˈi.ɑn/(US) · /ˈeɪ.ɑn/(US) · /ˈiː.ɔn/(UK) · /ˈeɪ.ɔn/(UK) · /ˈiː.ən/(UK) · /ˈiː.ɔn/ · /ˈeɪ.ɔn/

Definition of eon

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Eternity, the duration of the universe.
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noun

  1. Eternity, the duration of the universe.
  2. An immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time.
  3. (US, excessive, informal)A long period of time.
    “It’s been eons since we last saw each other.”
    “Traditionally, a luncheon is a lunch that takes an eon.”
  4. A period of one billion (short scale, i.e. 1,000,000,000) years; a gigayear.
    “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. The longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras.
  6. A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.

name

  1. The Greek National Organisation of Youth, similar to the Hitler Youth. It was formed before WWII and disbanded in 1941.

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Etymology

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

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