aeon
Americannoun
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Also Aeon (in Gnosticism) one of a class of powers or beings conceived as emanating from the Supreme Being and performing various functions in the operations of the universe.
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an immeasurably long period of time; age
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a period of one thousand million years
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(often capital) gnosticism one of the powers emanating from the supreme being and culminating in the demiurge
Etymology
Origin of aeon
First recorded in 1580–90; from Late Latin, from Greek aiṓn “age, long period of time, eternity”
Vocabulary lists containing aeon
Example Sentences
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Aeon is equipped with 21 sensors including cameras, radar, a microphone, and force and torque sensors for manipulation.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
“The selfish-gene model increasingly impoverishes both scientific and popular views of genetics and evolution,” David Dobbs wrote in an essay for Aeon.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
Aeon, a major supermarket chain Aeon that has been testing cesium and iodine levels in fish, announced plans to also test for tritium, a radionuclide inseparable from water.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2023
The youngest victim was 2-year-old Aeon Tocchini, who was on the couch when a redwood crashed through the roof of his family’s double wide in a small Sonoma County town.
From Washington Post • Jan. 14, 2023
Jesus now appeared, and, at His baptism in the Jordan, Christ, a powerful Aeon, joined Him, that He might be fitted for redeeming souls from the ignorance and slavery in which they are entangled.
From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by Killen, W. D. (William Dool)
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