eon - What does it mean?
'eon' hits on the web
You may have been searching for a specific social media @eon profile or the tag #eon
Definition of 'eon'English
Alternative forms
* aeon (chiefly British or Gnostic)
* (qualifier)
Noun
( wikipedia)
( en-noun)
(US) Eternity.
A period of 1,000,000,000 years.
*{{quote-magazine|date=2012-01
|author=Robert L. Dorit
|title=Rereading Darwin
|volume=100|issue=1|page=23
|magazine=
citation
|passage=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.}}
(geology) The longest time period used in geology.
(US|informal|hyperbole) A long period of time.
- It's been eons since we last saw each other.
A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
Derived terms
* Archean eon
* eonian
*
Anagrams
*
*
----
|
