eon
/ˈi.ɑn/
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Frequency: 2.70 in modern English
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Meaning
noun
noun
A period of one billion (short scale, i.e. 1,000,000,000) years; a gigayear.
noun
The longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras.
name
The Greek National Organisation of Youth, similar to the Hitler Youth. It was formed before WWII and disbanded in 1941.
Example Sentences
- "It’s been eons since we last saw each other."
- "Traditionally, a luncheon is a lunch that takes an eon."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈi.ɑn/
- British English: /ˈiː.ɔn/
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(dated pronunciation) Ian