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eons

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Vast stretches of time, especially ages so long they seem beyond human measure; the word can emphasize antiquity, endurance, or cosmic scale.

Detailed Definition
An eon is a vast span of time, often used in poetry and science to suggest deep antiquity. Here it emphasizes how ancient the dinosaurs’ tracks are compared with human time.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Dinosaurs’ tracks from eons past” uses eons for immensely long spans of time; Tennyson’s In Memoriam imagines deep time and ancient nature before humanity; “Eons of rain carved the canyon’s red walls” gives the noun geological force; in a contemporary climate poem, “after eons of ice, the glacier remembers melting” joins deep time to environmental change
Additional Notes
The word "eons" in "Dinosaurs' tracks from eons past" is less common than everyday time words and may need a lookup.; Found in the poem, Footprints in the Cosmos by Richard
Also Known As
millennia ages vast periods countless years
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