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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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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.
    • 1990, Judith Martin, Miss Manners’ Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium (A Fireside Book), New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 453:
      Traditionally, a luncheon is a lunch that takes an eon.
  4. (astronomy, geology) A period of one billion (short scale, i.e. 1,000,000,000) years; a gigayear.
    • 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.
  6. (geology) The longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras.
  7. (Gnosticism, usually spelled aeon or æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.

Hyponyms

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Derived terms

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English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ey- (3 c, 1 e)

Translations

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Anagrams

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Dutch

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nl

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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eon m or n (plural eonen, diminutive eoontje n or eonnetje n)

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

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

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

Noun

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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

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  • “eon” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

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

Noun

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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

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu-der.
Proto-Hellenic *aiwṓn
Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn)bor.
Late Latin aeōnlbor.
Polish eon

    Learned borrowing from Late Latin aeōn.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    eon m inan

    1. eon (immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time)
      Synonyms: era, wiek
    2. (geology) eon (longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras)

    Declension

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    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

    Noun

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    eon m animal

    1. (Gnosticism) aeon (spirit being emanating from the Godhead)

    Declension

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    Declension of eon
    singular plural
    nominative eon eonowie/eoni
    genitive eona eonów
    dative eonowi eonom
    accusative eona eonowie/eoni
    instrumental eonem eonami
    locative eonie eonach
    vocative eonie eonowie/eoni

    Further reading

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    • “eon”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish)
    • eon in PWN's encyclopedia

    Romanian

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from French éon.

    Noun

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    eon m (plural eoni)

    1. eon

    Declension

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    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative-accusative eon eonul eoni eonii
    genitive-dative eon eonului eoni eonilor
    vocative eonule eonilor

    Serbo-Croatian

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    Pronunciation

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

    Noun

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    èōn m inan (Cyrillic spelling ѐо̄н)

    1. eon

    Declension

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    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

    Further reading

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    • “eon”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

    Swedish

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    Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia sv

    Noun

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    eon c

    1. eon; eternity
    2. (geology) eon

    Declension

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

    References

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