Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word EON

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Definitions of EON

1. (politics) The Greek National Organisation of Youth, similar to the Hitler Youth. It was formed before WWII and disbanded in 1941.
2. (geology) The longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras.
3. (US, informal, hyperbole) A long period of time.
4. (Gnosticism, usually spelled aeon or æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
5. Eternity, the duration of the universe.
6. An immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time.
7. (astronomy, geology) A period of one billion (short scale, i.e. 1,000,000,000) years.

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Examples of Using EON in a Sentence

• It is the last period of the Proterozoic Eon as well as the last of the so-called "Precambrian supereon", before the beginning of the subsequent Cambrian Period marks the start of the Phanerozoic Eon, where recognizable fossil evidence of life becomes common.
• The Neoproterozoic Era is the last of the three geologic eras of the Proterozoic eon, spanning from 1 billion to 538.
• It is the eon during which abundant animal and plant life has proliferated, diversified and colonized various niches on the Earth's surface, beginning with the Cambrian period when animals first developed hard shells that can be clearly preserved in the fossil record.
• 5 billion years ago in the early Hadean eon (about 20 to 100 million years after the Solar System coalesced), and the ejecta of the impact event later accreted to form the Moon.
• The Hadean eon was succeeded by the Archean eon, with the Late Heavy Bombardment hypothesized to have occurred at the Hadean-Archean boundary.
• The earliest known life, mostly represented by shallow-water microbial mats called stromatolites, started in the Archean and remained simple prokaryotes (archaea and bacteria) throughout the eon.
• The English word secular, an adjective meaning something happening once in an eon, is derived from the Latin saeculum.
• Cyanobacteria are probably the most numerous taxon to have ever existed on Earth and the first organisms known to have produced oxygen, having appeared in the middle Archean eon and apparently originated in a freshwater or terrestrial environment.
• In common with the rest of the Western Isles, Barra is formed from the oldest rocks in Britain, the Lewisian gneiss, which dates from the Archaean eon.
• Its Earth equivalent consists of most of the Mesoarchean and Neoarchean eras (Archean eon), Paleoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic eras (Proterozoic eon).

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