Eon

//ˈi.ɑn//

Synonyms for "eon" (47 found)

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Translations

79 translations across 25 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • вечност noun (eternity)
  • вечност noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)

Catalan

1 entries
  • noun (geochronologic unit)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • noun (geochronologic unit)

Czech

4 entries
  • celá věčnost noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)
  • eon noun (period of 1,000,000,000 years)
  • eon noun (a being emanating from the Godhead)
  • věk noun (geochronologic unit)

Dutch

4 entries
  • eeuwigheid noun (eternity)
  • eon noun (period of 1,000,000,000 years)
  • eon noun (geochronologic unit)
  • eon noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • eono noun (geochronologic unit)
  • eono noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)

Finnish

4 entries
  • aioni noun (geochronologic unit)
  • ikuisuus noun (eternity)
  • ikuisuus noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)
  • iäisyys noun (eternity)

French

4 entries
  • bail noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)
  • éon noun (period of 1,000,000,000 years)
  • éon noun (geochronologic unit)
  • éternité noun (eternity)

German

1 entries
  • Äon noun (geochronologic unit)

Hebrew

2 entries
  • עִדָּן noun (geochronologic unit)
  • עִדָּן noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)

Hindi

1 entries
  • अनंतकाल noun (eternity)

Irish

2 entries
  • aeón noun (period of 1,000,000,000 years)
  • aeón noun (geochronologic unit)

Italian

3 entries
  • eone noun (geochronologic unit)
  • eone noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)
  • eone noun (a being emanating from the Godhead)

Japanese

2 entries
  • アイオーン noun (a being emanating from the Godhead)
  • 累代 noun (geochronologic unit)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • эон noun (geochronologic unit)

Korean

2 entries
  • 누대 noun (geochronologic unit)
  • 이언 noun (geochronologic unit)

Māori

3 entries
  • manomano tau noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)
  • pōpōroa noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)
  • pōpōroroa noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)

Norwegian

4 entries
  • eon noun (eternity)
  • eon noun (period of 1,000,000,000 years)
  • eon noun (geochronologic unit)
  • eon noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)

Polish

3 entries
  • eon noun (geochronologic unit)
  • eon noun (a being emanating from the Godhead)
  • wieczność noun (eternity)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • eternidade noun (eternity)
  • eternidade noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)
  • éon noun (period of 1,000,000,000 years)
  • éon noun (geochronologic unit)

Russian

4 entries
  • ве́чность noun (eternity)
  • ты́сяча лет noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)
  • целая ве́чность noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)
  • эо́н noun (geochronologic unit)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • eon noun (eternity)
  • eon noun (period of 1,000,000,000 years)
  • eon noun (geochronologic unit)
  • eon noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)

Spanish

4 entries
  • añales noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)
  • añares noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)
  • eternidad noun (eternity)
  • evo noun (geochronologic unit)

Swedish

4 entries
  • eon noun (geochronologic unit)
  • eon noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)
  • evighet noun (eternity)
  • evighet noun (informal, hyperbolic: a long period of time)

Turkish

1 entries
  • sonsuzluk noun (eternity)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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.

Source: tatoeba (11119114)

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

Source: wiktionary

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

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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