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aeon en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age, era”).

Meanings

1. Commonwealth standard spelling of eon.
   • When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried,/ When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died,/ We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it -- lie down for an aeon or two,/Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew. 1892, Rudyard Kipling, When Earth's Last Picture is Painted (L’Envoi to 'The Seven Seas'):
2. A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
3. (qualifier:Cosmology) Each universe in a series of universes, according to conformal cyclic cosmology.

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Deriveds

light aeon