Meaning of eon | Babel Free
ˈi.ɑnDefinitions
- The Greek National Organisation of Youth, similar to the Hitler Youth. It was formed before WWII and disbanded in 1941.
- Eternity, the duration of the universe.
- century
- An immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time.
- age (significant period of time)
- A long period of time.
- A period of one billion (short scale, i.e. 1,000,000,000) years.
- The longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras.
- A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
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.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
Know this word better than we do? Language is a living thing — help us keep it growing. Collaborate with Babel Free