aeon
Example Sentences
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In the supercentenarian league – 110 and above – the three-year gap between her and Knauss might as well be an aeon.
From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2019
So here's another important caveat: If a week is a long time in politics these days, a fortnight is an absolute aeon.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2018
The time frame matches Bottke’s model and corresponds to the Archaean aeon.
From Nature • Apr. 25, 2012
How strange, though, to compare this reasonable piece of entertainment with the sensational impact of that first Shrek film, way back in 2001, an aeon in movie-trend terms.
From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2010
Shabby,—let me here pause to say that in Virginia shabbiness is the grand universal law, and neatness the spasmodic exception, attained in rare spots, an aeon beyond their Old Dominion age.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
