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eon

▶noun US and technical spelling of aeon.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
aeon /ˈiːən/

▶noun (US or technical also eon)

1 an indefinite and very long period.

2 Astronomy & Geology a period of a thousand million years.

3 Geology a major division of geological time, subdivided into eras.

4 Philosophy (in Neoplatonism, Platonism, and Gnosticism) a power existing outside time, deriving from the supreme deity.

– origin C17: via eccles. L. from Gk aiōn ‘age’.

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