ae·on
chiefly British spelling of eon
1
: an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age
I haven't seen him in eons.
2a
: a very large division of geologic time usually longer than an era
the Archean eon
b
: a unit of geologic time equal to one billion years
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