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AEON
(EE-on)
An
immeasurably long period of time
Common
clues: Long,
long time; Many millennia; Ages and ages; A billion years;
Seemingly forever; Semi-eternity?; Big time?; Long period
Crossword
puzzle frequency:
3 times a year
Frequency
in English language:
61621 / 86800
Video:
Linda
Ronstadt – Long Long Time
The
word aeon, also spelled eon or æon, originally means
"life", and/or "being", though it then tended
to mean "age", "forever" or "for
eternity". In Homer it typically refers to life or
lifespan. Its latest meaning is more or less similar to the
Sanskrit word kalpa and Hebrew word olam. A cognate Latin word
aevum or aeuum for "age" is present in words such as
longevity and mediæval.
Although
the term aeon may be used in reference to a period of a billion
years (especially in geology, cosmology or astronomy), its more
common usage is for any long, indefinite, period of time.
Ancient
sundial from Marcianopolis
Roger
Penrose uses the word aeon to describe the period between
successive and cyclic big bangs within the context of conformal
cyclic cosmology. In this theory, the remote future of the
previous aeons becomes the Big Bang of the current aeon
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article is licensed under the GNU
Free Documentation License.
It uses material from the Wikipedia
article "Aeon".
AEON
(164)
19 We- >1 05 Long, long time AGES EONS
13
We >1 08 Long time AGES EONS
13
We >1 08 Many millennia EONS
7
Mo+ >1 03 Very long time EONS
5
Tu >1 06 Ages and ages EONS
4
We- >1 96 A billion years
4
Th- >1 09 Near-eternity EONS
4
Mo >1 00 One billion years
4
We+ >1 06 Seemingly forever AGES EONS
3
We+ >1 03 Ages EONS ERAS
99
Ages and ages and ages EONS
3
Th >1 05 Almost eternity EONS
3
We- >1 87 Long period AGES
3
Th Rea 03 Long time, in London
02
Semi-eternity?
2
We >1 05 "___ Flux" (2005 Charlize Theron movie)
2
Tu >1 06 "___ Flux" (Charlize Theron movie)
2
Tu NYT 93 A long time AGES EONS
2
Tu- >1 04 A long, long time AGES EONS
2
Th- >1 02 Age
2
Fr- >1 06 Big time?
2
Th- >1 98 Billion years
2
Tu- >1 04 Boundless time
03
Eternity EONS
2
Th WSJ 08 Forever and a day AGES EONS
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