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What does eon mean?

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Noun
  1. (US) Eternity.
  2. A period of 1,000,000,000 years.
  3. (geology) The longest time period used in geology.
  4. (US, informal, hyperbolic) A long period of time.
  5. (Gnosticism, usually spelled aeon or æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
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Only once in an eon or so is it vouchsafed a writer to write a masterpiece at the age of nine years.
The cases of Tanchelm and eon are no doubt cases of simple religious mania.
And in an eon of lying they never have run up against a short-circuit like that.
Less formally, eon often refers to a span of one billion years.
If one might only live an eon or two he might then well complain of the changing climate.
For truly, in the science of aviation a day is a generation, and three months an eon.

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