Eon

/ˈi.ɑn/

Synonyms for "eon" (53 found)

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Closest matches (11)

Noun(6 words)
aeonageagesblue mooncoon's agecosmic emanation
aeonageagesannus magnuscentury

Strong matches (16)

Noun(10 words)
crow's agedivine powerdog's agedonkey's yearseldepocheraeternityforeverforever and a day

Related words (26)

Noun(15 words)
geologic time unitinteriminterludeintervallifetimelong haullong runmeantimeminutemonth of sundaysspelltime unitwhileyearsyonks
great yearindictionlonglong timelong whilemonth of sundaysplatonic yearright smart spelltimeyearsyears on end

Related word relations

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More general

13 entries
agecosmological ideageologic timegeologic time unitgeological timelong timemetaphysical conceptperiodspiritual beingsupernatural beingtime durationtime unityears

More specific

6 entries
billion-year periodcreative principleemanationepocheragigayear

Collocations

6 entries
Archean eonGnostic aeonsHadean eonPhanerozoic eongeologic eonlong eon

Inflections

2 entries

Derivations

3 entries

Translations

8 translations across 8 languages.

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Czech

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  • eon noun (period of 1,000,000,000 years)

Dutch

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  • eon noun (period of 1,000,000,000 years)

French

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  • éon noun (period of 1,000,000,000 years)

Irish

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  • aeón noun (period of 1,000,000,000 years)

Norwegian

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  • eon noun (period of 1,000,000,000 years)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • éon noun (period of 1,000,000,000 years)

Serbo-Croatian

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  • eon noun (period of 1,000,000,000 years)

Spanish

1 entries
  • eón noun (period of 1,000,000,000 years)

Sample sentences

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Then about 2.3 to 2.5 billion years ago, during the Proterozoic Eon, blue-green algae called cyanobacteria, living in Earth’s shallow oceans, began emitting enough oxygen through photosynthesis to create the permanently oxygenated atmosphere that keeps us alive today.

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It’s been eons since we last saw each other.

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Traditionally, a luncheon is a lunch that takes an eon.

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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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