eon

Definitions

1. The Greek National Organisation of Youth, similar to the Hitler Youth. It was formed before WWII and disbanded in 1941.
2. Eternity, the duration of the universe.
3. century
4. An immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time.
5. age (significant period of time)
6. A long period of time.
   US, excessive, informal
7. A period of one billion (short scale, i.e. 1,000,000,000) years.
8. The longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras.
9. A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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