(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.
Peon
Definition:
(n.) See Poon.
(n.) A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.
(n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.
(n.) See 2d Pawn.
Example Sentences:
(1) If any of the poor little peons that they don’t care about don’t have that paycheck coming, they can’t buy your stuff.” To those who say robots are taking more jobs than Mexicans, she points to the number of factories across the border.
(2) But more than anything, Maddox – who did not want her picture taken – voted for the incoming president because she sees him as on the side of people like her, those she calls the “peons” at the mercy of big business and indifferent politicians.