eon

See also EON, E.ON, and ΕΟΝ

English

WOTD – 21 January 2006    

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈiː.ɒn/

Noun

Wikipedia eon (plural eons)

1. (US) Eternity.
2. A period of 1,000,000,000 years.
   • 2012 January 1, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, 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 time period used in geology.
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.

Derived terms

• Archean eon
• eonian
• temporal æon

Translations

eternity

• Bulgarian: вечност (bg) (večnost)
• Czech: věčnost (cs) f
• Dutch: eeuwigheid (nl) f, (rare) eterniteit (nl) f, (rare) sempiterniteit (nl) f
• Finnish: ikuisuus (fi), iäsyys (fi), iänkaikkisuus (fi)
• Norwegian: eon (no) m
• Polish: wieczność (pl) f

• Portuguese: eternidade (pt) f
• Russian: вечность (ru) f (večnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: eon (sh) m, vječnost (sh) f
• Spanish: eón (es) m, eternidad (es) f
• Swedish: evighet (sv) c

period of 1,000,000,000 years

• Czech: eon (cs) m
• Dutch: eon (nl) n
• Norwegian: eon (no) m

• Serbo-Croatian: eon (sh) m
• Spanish: eón (es) m

geological time period

• Czech: věk (cs) m
• Dutch: eon (nl) n
• French: éon (fr) m
• German: Äon (de) m
• Italian: eone (it) m
• Japanese: 累代 (ja) (るいだい, ruidai)

• Norwegian: eon (no) m
• Polish: eon (pl) m
• Russian: эон (ru) (eón) m 
• Serbo-Croatian: eon (sh) m
• Spanish: eón (es), evo (es) m
• Swedish: eon (sv) c

informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time

• Bulgarian: вечност (bg) (večnost)
• Czech: celá věčnost (cs)
• Finnish: ikuisuus (fi), maailmankausi (fi)
• Italian: eone (it) m
• Norwegian: eon (no) m

• Russian: тысяча лет (ru) f (tysjača let), целая вечность (ru) n (celaja večnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: eon (sh) m
• Spanish: añares (es) pl
• Swedish: eon (sv) c

a being emanating from the Godhead

• Italian: eone (it) m
• Japanese: アイオーン (ja) (aiōn)

• Norwegian: eon (no) m
• Russian: эон (ru) (eón) m 

Anagrams

• Neo, NEO
• one

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Norwegian

Etymology

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

Noun

eon m

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

Inflection

    Inflection of eon

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	eon	eonen	eoner	eonene
Nynorsk m	eon	eonen	eonar	eonane

References

• “eon” in The Ordnett Dictionary

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /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

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Swedish

Noun

eon c

1. eon; eternity
2. (geology) eon

Declension

Declension of eon

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	eon	eonen	eoner	eonerna
genitive	eons	eonens	eoners	eonernas