{
  "eon":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age":[
        "I haven't seen him in eons ."
      ],
      ": a very large division of geologic time usually longer than an era":[
        "the Archean eon"
      ],
      ": a unit of geologic time equal to one billion years":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8\u0113-\u0259n",
      "\u02c8\u0113-\u02cc\u00e4n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Sanctions take a comparative eon in the scheme of war or a humanitarian crisis. \u2014 Robin Wright, The New Yorker , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "During this early period, the Archean eon , life was not yet a major planetary player. \u2014 Adam Frank, The Atlantic , 19 Feb. 2022",
      "But for the largest museum of natural history in the world, the year-and-a-half-long closure to the public during the Covid-19 pandemic felt like an eon . \u2014 Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine , 26 May 2021",
      "Twelve years is an eon in information technology time. \u2014 Paul Krugman, Star Tribune , 21 May 2021",
      "Over a year and a half, or a political eon ago, the focal point of our political discourse was a caravan of migrants trekking through Central America and Mexico in the hopes of winning asylum in the United States. \u2014 Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic , 3 June 2020",
      "Over eons , the river carved the Grand Canyon and scattered billions of tons of sediment across its delta, flowing into the Sea of Cortez. \u2014 Ian James, AZCentral.com , 19 Apr. 2020",
      "Its surface is extremely and uniformly red\u2014probably because of organic molecules that formed over eons of steady pummeling by cosmic radiation. \u2014 Lee Billings, Scientific American , 20 Feb. 2020",
      "Hunter expects to hit $6 million in sales by May, eons ahead of its loftiest projections from January. \u2014 Kate Knibbs, Wired , 27 Apr. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Late Latin ae\u014dn \"age (in the world's history), evil spirit (in Gnosticism),\" borrowed from Greek ai\u1e53n \"lifetime, long period of time, age\" \u2014 more at aye entry 3":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1642, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-033326"
  }
}