Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An indefinitely long period of time; an age.
- n. The longest division of geologic time, containing two or more eras.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A long space of time; a secular period, either indefinite or limited to the duration of something, as a dispensation or the universe: used as equivalent to age, era, or cycle, and sometimes to eternity.
- n. In Platonic philosophy, a virtue, attribute, or perfection existing throughout eternity. The Platonists represented the Deity as an assemblage of eons. The Gnostics considered eons as certain substantial powers or divine natures emanating from the Supreme Deity, and performing various parts in the operations of the universe.
- n. The largest divisionof geologic-time: used by J. D. Dana especially in dividing the archœan into astral and archæozoic eons.
Wiktionary
- n. US Eternity.
- n. A period of 1,000,000,000 years.
- n. geology The longest time period used in geology.
- n. US, informal, hyperbolic A long period of time.
- n. Gnosticism A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An immeasurable or infinite space of time; eternity; a long space of time; an age.
- n. (Gnostic Philos.) One of the embodiments of the divine attributes of the Eternal Being.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe
- n. the longest division of geological time
- n. an immeasurably long period of time
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek αἰών (aiōn, "age"). (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin aeōn, from Greek aiōn; see aiw- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“They decide to use an unexplained Trait that the Medoras were given at the last Progression which is about equivalent to an "eon," or an "Age" for Robert Jordan fans to decide who would become a representative.”
“I've been struggling, for many an eon now (and by 'eon', I mean 'cooking session'), to make tofu such that I don't feel like I'm eating teeny sponges.”
“Now i see all the cult trolls wants to play with johns small tool, com eon you troll come out of the closet and rejoice to all of your homosexuality we all know any ways.”
“Extend that, AngryMatt, as far into the future as you like (and then add another eon, as it would not probably be far enough into the future for me!).”
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“I was just thinking, "Wouldn't it be nice if wine grew on trees?" eon ju park: aperitivo table”
“After an eon of paperwork, my wife and I traveled to Russia last week, and met the little boy who will soon be our son.”
“Gladstone is determined to break free from the control of the TechnoCore at any and all costs, in order to save humankind from an eon of slavery.”
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“Any artist can touch up and "revise" one part of their work for an eon instead of tackling something knew.”
“Some book highlights from my rss reader, sadly neglected for about a week (which is an eon in blog terms; how quickly one becomes overwhelmed with tempting and fascinating information by not keeping up for a few mere days).”
“Stop the peopl eon the watch lists from traveling to the US.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eon’.
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Palabras de 3 letras en Español.
¡La única lista que también incluye flexiónes verbales y pluralizaciones! Ayúdame a encontrarlas todas.
(Por ser una lista para Scrabble, los dígrafos ll, rr, y ch valen como una sola ...aba, aca, aga, ahe, ahi, aho, aja, aje, aji, ajo, ala, ale and 427 more...
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Time
clock, forever, never, ever, ago, when, then, now, past, present, future, timeline and 119 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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The Pain of Texting
Words that are a pain in the ass to type in on a numerical keypad on a cell phone because they have consecutive letters that share the same button:
2 - ABC
3 - DEF
4 - GHI...defcon, hi, no, attitude, xylophone, on, monday, monkey, mono, dig, back, babble and 212 more...
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cross words
the good ole boys of the nyt crossword puzzle
oleo, oreo, stlo, amie, ares, eros, erato, sloe, ogee, apse, enola, ecru and 94 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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The Most Beautiful Words in the Engli...
mellifluous, obscure, star-crossed, undulating, solstice, messiah, audacious, solace, twilight, wanderlust, lovelorn, byzantine and 219 more...
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.names
remy, rolf, theobald, jerrick, dray, theade, torfin, roderick, eleazer, keller, leif, melrick and 149 more...
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words found to be generally pleasing
alabaster, mahogany, camphor, coalesce, spire, portmanteau, gadabout, palaver, dolor, dour, dun, luminesce and 610 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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lanas's Words
serendipitous, insouciant, charming, sanguine, dear, odd, quaint, small, tremble, blush, flirt, tryst and 248 more...
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horizon, echo, undulation, resonance, reflection, acoustic, swoosh, distant, glide, interspace, marbles, radiant and 144 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Nakoo's list of beautiful words.
Just about any word I like at the time.
razbliuto, anaxiphilia, lipothymous, inamorata, acushla, abulia, serendipity, alexithymia, quixotic, idiosyncratic, ad nauseam, equanimity and 305 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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