Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryEternity, the duration of the universe. · An immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time. · A long period of time. · A period of one billion (short scale, i.e. 1,000,000,000) years; a gigayear.
From Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age, era”).
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