eon
Eternity, the duration of the universe.
Noun
- Eternity, the duration of the universe.
- An immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time.
- 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. - 1990, Judith Martin, Miss Manners’ Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium (A Fireside Book), New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 453:
- 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...
- The longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras.
- A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
Origin
From Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age, era”).
Forms
Synonyms
aeon age ages blue moon coon's age crow's age dog's age donkey's years eld eon eternity forever forever and a day interim interlude interval lifetime long haul long run meantime minute month of Sundays spell while
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Archean eon Hadean eon Phanerozoic eon Proterozoic eon supereon temporal æon
Related
time immemorial time out of mind until one is blue in the face until the cows come home yottasecond