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Definition of aeon in English: aeon(US eon) noun ˈiːən 1often aeonsAn indefinite and very long period of time. he reached the crag aeons before I arrived Example sentencesExamples - Long-term solutions to the problems affecting them would have been enacted aeons ago.
- It is being together, without seeing each other for aeons.
- That person, born aeons ago, unknowingly began a multibillion-dollar industry that focuses on treating illness.
- Audiences have been waiting aeons for a good sci-fi flick.
- Finally, after what seemed like aeons, they reached what Lia presumed was their destination.
- The world has been living with contrasts, for aeons.
- The authorities here have finally done something they should have done aeons ago.
- Just after that, she started going out with a mutual friend of ours, who I'd dated aeons ago and was still friendly with.
- Tradition, in fact, takes back the antiquity of the temple, not by centuries, but by aeons.
- After what seemed like aeons, she finally reached the stairs.
- I'll spend aeons staring at bottles of expensive shampoo humming ‘Maybe this time’.
- In any case, in earlier aeons, background radiation levels were much greater than today.
- It's been the stock question of doting aunties for aeons.
- In the 21st century, the 1930s seem to be aeons away.
- So in summary, my invention will bring 20 years of happiness followed by aeons of fear and destruction.
- With many DVD's, this feature cannot be fast-forwarded so we have to suffer in silence for what seems aeons.
- Oh, that's aeons away, almost in the realm of incredible.
- It is ages and aeons since I have been to the Hills.
- It has been known for aeons of time that security resides within oneself - it cannot be bought.
- Ages and aeons ago, when I was in high school, I took a word processing course to fill a credit.
Synonyms number of years, lifetime, duration, length of life age, epoch, generation, year, time, long period - 1.1Geology Astronomy A unit of time equal to a thousand million years.
〔天文，地质〕十亿年，京年 Example sentencesExamples - It's a rock place, a world of eons and eras and millions of years conflated to timelessness.
- In these places are jagged cliffs falling almost vertical to the tide line, a remnant of aeons of erosion.
- Over the eons the lunar spin rate has been damped by Earth's gravity, because the Moon's mass distribution is not uniform.
- Stars and galaxies that old are a long way away from us: 13 bn light years, give or take a couple of aeons.
- Because they have succumbed to erosion and weathering, perhaps for aeons, these craters are notoriously difficult to spot.
- 1.2Geology A major division of geological time, subdivided into eras.
〔地质〕宙 前寒武宙。 Example sentencesExamples - The Proterozoic aeon (2,500-540 million years ago) saw episodic increases in atmospheric oxygen content.
- These creatures were direct descendants of the great dinosaurs of the long past Mesozoic Aeon.
- The record has been much deformed, reconstituted, and obliterated during the subsequent Proterozoic and Phanerozoic eons.
- The effects of UV on microorganisms growing under conditions prevalent during the early Precambrian Aeon are examined.
- The rocks dated back into the Archean eon, before 2.5 billion years ago.
2Philosophy
(in Neoplatonism, Platonism, and Gnosticism) a power existing from eternity; an emanation or phase of the supreme deity. 〔哲〕（新柏拉图派哲学、柏拉图派哲学和诺斯替教派）伊涌 Example sentencesExamples - Whether that master be regarded as a sage or as a Gnostic aeon, the orthodox view of him would be seriously challenged.
- Freedom did not exist before history (in some Gnostic aeon of perfection), but actualizes itself in a passage through time.
- The proposition that randomness is equal to the Platonic Aeon is not explained.
- This aeon is the image of the eternal age of the next life.
- He goes on to note that all aeons emanate from it.
OriginMid 17th century: via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek aiōn 'age'. Definition of eon in US English: eon(British aeon) noun often eons1An indefinite and very long period of time, often a period exaggerated for humorous or rhetorical effect. 极漫长的时期；万古（尤指为产生幽默或修辞效果而采用的夸张说法） he reached the crag eons before I arrived his eyes searched her face for what seemed like eons Example sentencesExamples - If anything, the holiday season, while a welcome break, is also an annoying interruption in her routine - for she stopped believing in making New Year's resolutions eons ago.
- This question, in various forms, has been pondered by physicists and philosophers for eons.
- Humankind has built up that understanding over the eons first and foremost by observing phenomena accurately, and then recording the observations assiduously.
- It is deep time that makes possible the blind movement of evolution, the massing and honing of minute effects over eons.
- A mainstay of building construction for eons, until recent years the product's drab gray mien was considered too cold for all but the most esoteric decorative purposes.
- The consciousness of Gods can stretch for eons and eons.
- So, the argument goes, over many eons a self-reinforcing, dynamic process emerged: people burned the land, eucalypts thrived, people burned some more.
- Over the eons the lunar spin rate has been damped by Earth's gravity, because the Moon's mass distribution is not uniform.
- And through the eons there have been long periods of warming and cooling across the globe.
- I gathered my feet beneath me and tore forward, screaming a maniacal scream that I think I may have picked up at the academy eons and eons ago.
- We have seen how the basic aspects of solar eclipses appear in the sky; let us now return to our discussion of how humans have reacted to such events over the eons.
- The oyamel firs have held their ground on these volcanic hillsides for eons, and Mexico-bound monarchs will spend the winter nowhere else.
- If violence was effective, we would have had a peaceful planet eons ago.
- He suggested that the age of the Earth might be estimated by comparing the salinity of rivers with the salt content of the oceans, reasoning that the saltiness had built up over the eons.
- In short, there is a real-life mystery about what transpired at the Synod of Whitby; the full truth still needs to be teased out from the various clues through the eons.
- Then again, women and children have been the targets of violence for eons.
- When you see a natural stone formation, you are seeing the result of eons of active degradation and entropy.
- In doing so, the court presumably would have to face the question that has puzzled the patent office for decades and philosophers for eons: What makes us human?
- And unlike a lot of rock on Earth that has been unrecognizably recycled by volcanic activity over the eons, a lot of lunar material retains records of some of the first impacts.
- Consequently, in his view, for eons philosophers have in essence been barking up the wrong tree.
Synonyms number of years, lifetime, duration, length of life - 1.1Geology Astronomy A unit of time equal to a billion years.
〔天文，地质〕十亿年，京年 Example sentencesExamples - It's possible: Astronomers believe that comets and asteroids hitting the Moon eons ago left some water behind.
- This mass of molten continent still, however, retains enough homogeneity to be returned more or less as a unit at the mid-ocean ridges eons later as the rock cycle continues.
- 1.2Geology A major division of geological time, subdivided into eras.
〔地质〕宙 前寒武宙。 Example sentencesExamples - The record has been much deformed, reconstituted, and obliterated during the subsequent Proterozoic and Phanerozoic eons.
- Despite our lack of knowledge, or perhaps because of it, researchers have divided the Precambrian into three time periods called eons.
- Originally there were only two eons, the Precambrian and the Phanerozoic.
- 1.3Philosophy (in Neoplatonism, Platonism, and Gnosticism) a power existing from eternity; an emanation or phase of the supreme deity.
〔哲〕（新柏拉图派哲学、柏拉图派哲学和诺斯替教派）伊涌
OriginMid 17th century: via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek aiōn ‘age’. |