eon

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈiː.ɔn/|/ˈeɪ.ɔn/|/ˈiː.ən/    美 /ˈi.ɑn/|/ˈeɪ.ɑn/|/ˈiː.ɔn/|/ˈeɪ.ɔn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Eternity, the duration of the universe.
  2. An immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time.
  3. A long period of time. US,excessive,informal
    — It’s been eons since we last saw each other.
  4. A period of one billion (short scale, i.e. 1,000,000,000) years; a gigayear.
    — 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.
  5. The longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras.
  6. A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.

词形变化

eons plural aeon alternative,Commonwealth æon alternative,dated

词汇关系

近义词
aeon age ages blue moon coon's age crow's age dog's age donkey's years eld eon eternity forever forever and a day interim interlude interval lifetime long haul long run meantime minute month of Sundays spell while years yonks
反义词
jiffy moment never in a month of Sundays
上位词
period uncertain period
下位词
Archean eon Hadean eon Phanerozoic eon Proterozoic eon supereon temporal æon
衍生词
eonian eonic geon light eon
相关词
time immemorial time out of mind until one is blue in the face until the cows come home yottasecond

词源

From Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age, era”).
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