(n.) A period of immeasurable duration; also, an emanation of the Deity. See Eon.
(n.) An immeasurable or infinite space of time; eternity; a long space of time; an age.
(n.) One of the embodiments of the divine attributes of the Eternal Being.
Example Sentences:
(1) Being without one for aeons – a day – made me realise how much I rely on it.
(2) The £40m dowry will be used to refurbish stores as Aeon outlets with the cash helping to preserve employment of Tesco's nearly 1,000 workforce.
(3) After the acres of print and aeons of time spent discussing the extremist takeover of the Labour party, a more pressing matter has been left more or less ignored.
(4) It seems an aeon since Ellen DeGeneres generated so much controversy for coming out as a lesbian on her TV show in 1997.
(5) In real-life terms, 16 years is aeons – certainly enough to break off a 12-year engagement, meet the father of my children, give birth to those children; lose my wonderful stepdad to a stroke, offer to be a surrogate mum; see my sister marry, divorce and fall in love again; experience my brother and his wife having a beautiful son; and buy one of those tremendous trampolines for the garden.
(6) Their bible is the International Chronostratigraphic Chart , the beautiful document that archives Earth history from the present back to the “informal” aeon of the Hadean, between 4bn and 4.6bn years ago (“informal” because vanishingly little is known about it).
(7) The smoke hung in the air for a small aeon before wind and the encroaching darkness removed the stain from the sky.
(8) Their specialism is the division of deep time into aeons, eras, periods, epochs and stages, and the establishment of temporal limits for those divisions and their subdivisions.
(9) 3.44pm BST 73rd over: England 161-7 (Ali 52, Jordan 1) Two slips, a silly point and a short leg, as Herath comes into Jordan, who doesn't see him as early as Prior or Ali - each block seems hurried - and then a jaffa bounces and spinds past the outside edge, aeons and hectares too good for him.
(10) It is not now, so clearly the climate has changed since aeons ago.
(11) "We are very pleased to announce this deal with Aeon and are confident this will deliver the best outcome for our staff and for our shareholders," said Clarke.
(12) This is an abridged version of an essay that appears in the digital-only magazine Aeon
(13) Aeon is expected to buy the rest of the shares in Tesco Japan in the autumn.
(14) Still, on it plods, aeons passing with every will-sapping shot of Alfie crying in a doorway, his cuckolded jowls flapping like windsocks.
(15) Trying to call a cab from one of the two main services is equally frustrating: you listen to Elton John for 20 minutes while holding an operator, then wait a further aeon or two for a recorded message to the effect that there no cabs available in your sector at the moment, and could you please call back later.
(16) It was as well behaved an opening to a game as these rivals have managed for aeons.
(17) Yet the tax system is full of such weirdnesses, and has been ever since married couples rightly stopped being taxed jointly, aeons ago.
(18) It's a swanky address but, as she points out, she bought it aeons ago, when even such lowly forms of life as political activists and freelance journalists could still afford a piece of Manhattan real estate.
(19) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Joseph Cooke This is an idea that’s been going on for aeons of time; this middle class thing like, ‘We’re different to you and you’re a lower class person so you stay on that side of void and eat at that cafe down there, and we’ll sit on this side and eat at this restaurant.” It’s like a mould.
(20) Despite the UK’s enthusiasm for Amazon , and similarly permissive test flights elsewhere in Europe, Canada and Australia, “no single country stands out as being aeons ahead of everyone else,” says Holland Michel.
Anon
Definition:
(adv.) Straightway; at once.
(adv.) Soon; in a little while.
(adv.) At another time; then; again.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 'Coping With Drinking' questionnaire, administered to 124 A1-anon members, was factor analyzed and revealed nine identifiable styles of coping.
(2) For the family physician, brief therapy for the codependent family can be visibly effective when combined with follow-up and referral to resources such as Al-Anon family groups.
(3) The whole King James Bible is littered with literary allusions, almost as many as Shakespeare (to quote that distinguished authority Anon, the trouble with Hamlet is it's so full of clichées).
(4) Referrals to Al-Anon for spouses and to Alateen for teenage children were by far the most frequently provided services.
(5) The police operation in Turkey followed the arrest of three alleged leaders of the so-called Anons in Spain on Friday.
(6) Al-Anon came to Norway in 1960, and today there are 40 groups.
(7) • Anon: "I have been here in Australia for 45 years and I wanted to spend these later years in my home country, which is Scotland.
(8) It has been reported (Anon, 1988) that while cysticercosis in pigs from 1975-1986 varied from 0.02% to 2.63%, it has not been found since 1986.
(9) Everything out of copyright will be automatically the copyright of Singinc, who own “trad” and “anon” now, too.
(10) Anon The M4 runner beans When we drove off down the M4 on holiday to Wales, our blue Renault 12 estate was packed to the brim.
(11) You continue to make threats to anons you believe you have identified, journalists, anyone in the public that speaks out against your behavior.
(12) I do not wish to endanger other anons," Sm0k340n tweeted on Sunday night.
(13) Marital and family services other than referral to Al-Anon and Alateen and conjoint couple interviews in inpatient programs were provided to fewer patients than those eligible for the services.
(14) The history of Al-Anon and its current demographics are reviewed.
(15) Accidental or intentional ingestion of Gramoxone has caused 232 human deaths between 1964 and 1973 (Anon 1974).
(16) Family systems work is a powerful, therapeutic adjunct to alcoholism treatment for the alcoholic and the participation of family members in Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon, Ala-Teen, and Adult Children of Alcoholics is quite useful.
(17) "Greetings, fellow anons," it said beneath the headline Operation Payback.
(18) It was interesting, however, that although for 5-yr-old boys there was anon-significant inverse relationship between modes, and for 17-yr-old youths there was a non-significant direct relationship, the difference between these two correlations was significant.
(19) Histological examination of the sacral cyst showed it to be a dura mater structure, in fact anon-communicating meningocoele.
(20) Its name comes from the “anonymous” tag that posters on 4chan get; users of the site, as well as members of the group, both refer to themselves as “anons”.