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Definitions: Aeon |
AeonNoun1. (in Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe. 2. The longest division of geological time; two or more eras. 3. An immeasurably long period of time. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aeon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references) |
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Aerospace | 109 years. This term was suggested by Harold Urey in 1957. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This means the same thing as the word eon: an eternal frame of time, eternity.
The word æon was used by Plato to denote the eternal world of ideas, which he conceived was "behind" the perceived world, as demonstrated in his famous cave-allegory.
In many Gnostic systems, the various emanations of the God, who is also known by such names as the One, the Monad, Aiwn teleos (The Perfect Æon), Bythos, Proarkh (Before the Beginning), H'Arkh (The Beginning), are called æons. This first being is also an æon and has an inner being within itself, known as Ennoea (Thought), Charis (Grace), or Sige (Silence). The split perfect being concieves the second æon, Nus (Mind), within itself. Along with the male Nus comes the female æon Veritas (Truth)
The æons often came in male/female pairs called syzygies, and were frequently numerous (20-30). Two of the most commonly listed æons were Christ and Sophia. The æons constitute the pleroma, the "region of light". The lowest regions of the pleroma are closest to the darkness, i.e. the physical world.
When an æon named Sophia, emanates without her partner æon, the result is the Demiurge (or Ialdaboth), a creature that should never had come into existence. This creature does not belong to the pleroma, and the One emanates two savior aeons, Christ and the Holy Spirit to save man from the Demiurge. Christ then took the form of the man, Jesus, in order to be able to teach man how to achieve gnosis, i.e. return to the pleroma.
According to Tertullians Against the Valentinians (latin: Adversus Valentinianos) chapter VII and VIII (and we only know the details of this system from its opponents), the gnostic Valentinius had 30 different æons which emanate each other in sequence. The first 8 of these (corresponding to generation one-four below) is referred to as the Ogdoad.
According to St. Irenaeus Against heresies (latin: Adversus Haereses) also known as The Detection and Overthrow of Falsely So-Called Gnosis book 1, chapter 12, the followers of the gnostics Ptolemy and Colorbasus had æons which differ from those of Valentinius. Logos is created when Anthropos learn to speak. The first four are called the Tetrad and the eight are called the Ogdoad.
Plato's Æon
Gnostic Æons
Valentinius Æons
Ptolemys and Colorbasus Æons
The order of Anthropos and Ecclesia versus Logos and Zoe are somewhat debated, different sources give different accounts. Logos and Zoe are unique to this system as compared to the previous and may be an evolved version of the first, totalling 32 æons, but it is not clear if the first two were actually regarded æons.See Also
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Synonym: AeonSynonym: eon (n). (additional references) |
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Deity | Eon, aeon, special providence, deus ex machina; avatar. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Aeon - Countdown im All (2000) | |
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| "Aeon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.45% of the time. "Aeon" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.45% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | AEON Credit Service Asia Co. Ltd. | Japan | AEON Co., Ltd. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aeon flux | 362 |
aeon | 136 |
aeon dvd flux | 22 |
aeon flux picture | 14 |
aeon agent | 11 |
aeon japan | 11 |
aeon flux episode guide | 8 |
aeon flux pic | 8 |
aeon alter | 8 |
aeon alter help | 6 |
aeon flux hentai | 6 |
aeon corporation | 6 |
aeon flux gallery | 5 |
aeon flux wallpaper | 5 |
aeon flux episode | 5 |
aeon flux movie | 5 |
aeon insurance | 5 |
aeon quad | 5 |
aeon spoke | 5 |
aeon globe | 4 |
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Albanian | amshim, përjetësi (Eon, eternity, everlasting, forever, immortality, perpetuity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فترة لا نهائية, دهر (age, eon, epoch, era). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вечност (age, eternity, everlasting, imperishability, infinity, perpetuity), еон. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vìènost (age, beyond, Eon, eternity, immortality, perpetuity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | eeuwigheid (eternity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | eono. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قرن ازلی , قرن بی انتها, اعصارمتمادی , ابدیت (Eternity, Immortality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | temps infini, période incommensurable, éternité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ewigkeit (ages, eternity, immutability, perpetuity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αιών. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | צח (endurance, eternity, forever, immortality, perpetuity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | eón. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | eone. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | eash (age, century, old age, oldness, seniority). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aeonay evo (Eon), eternidade (eparchy, eternity, eternize, everlasting, forever yours), éon. (various references) eternitate (eternity, perpetuity), epocã (age, date, day, epoch, era, period, time). (various references) вечность (aeons, age, agelessness, eon, eternity, everlasting, immortality, imperishability, perpetuity, timelessness). (various references) eon (eon). (various references) eón (Eon). (various references) tidrymd (lapse, term), evighet (Eon, eternity, everlasting, perpetuity), eon (Eon). (various references) sonsuzluk (endlessness, Eon, eternity, everlasting, indefiniteness, infinite, infinitude, infinity, the infinite), evrenin yaşı, ebediyet (athanasia, Eon, eternity, everlasting). (various references) вічність (eternity, everlasting, forever, immortality, perpetuity), ера (day, epoch, era). (various references) thời đại (day, eon, era, time), niên kỷ sự vĩnh viễn (eon), khoảng thời gian vô tận (eon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | æon. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "aeon": aeonian, aeonic, aeons. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "aeon": paeon. (additional references) | |
Words containing "aeon": paeons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-o" | |
-1 letter: ane, eon, nae, one. | |
-2 letters: ae, an, en, na, ne, no, oe, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-o" | |
+1 letter: aeons, agone, alone, anode, anole, atone, axone, beano, canoe, genoa, novae, oaken, oaten, ocean, paeon. | |
+2 letters: acnode, aeonic, agones, ancone, anodes, anoles, anomie, anyone, apnoea, arseno, atoned, atoner, atones, awoken, axones, beacon, beanos, bemoan, borane, canoed, canoes, cornea, daemon, deacon, donate, enamor, enhalo, eolian, eonian, etalon, foeman, genoas, lanose, loaned, loaner, moaned, moaner, nonage, notate, novena, noyade, oceans, octane, omenta, onager, orange, ornate, paeons, reason, reloan, season, senora, teopan, tolane, weapon, weason, yeoman, zonate. | |
+3 letters: abalone, abdomen, acetone, acinose, acnodes, aconite, acrogen, adenoid, adenoma, adorned, adorner, aeneous, aeolian, aeonian, agelong, agnomen, agonies, agonise, agonize, aileron, alencon, aleuron, alienor, allonge, almoner, ambones, amidone, amniote, amoeban, anagoge, ancones, anemone, aneroid, anethol, anisole, annoyed, annoyer, anodize, anodyne, anolyte, anomies, anorexy, another, anymore, apnoeal, apnoeas, apnoeic, apogean, apolune, aproned, arenose, arenous, atoners, atonies, automen, axoneme, baloney, bandore, banjoes, baronet, baronne, bayonet, beacons, begonia, begroan, bemoans, boatmen, bogbean, bondage, boranes, broaden, cabezon, cajones, calzone, canzone, celadon, centavo, chalone, choanae, coagent, coannex, coarsen, cocaine, codeina, coenact, cognate, coinage, concave, conceal, conchae, congaed, congeal, connate, corneae, corneal, corneas, coronae, cowbane, daemons, dapsone, deacons, decagon, deodand, dioxane, dogbane, dogvane, donated, donates, duodena, elation, enactor, enamors, enamour, enation, encomia, enhalos, enolase, entozoa, epinaoi, epinaos, erasion, espanol, etalons, ethanol, eupnoea, evasion, flavone, foramen, foreman, foreran, galleon, gowaned, groaned, groaner, halogen, hambone, hexagon, hexosan, hoarsen, hogmane, hyponea, jaconet, jawbone, joannes, jobname, joyance, kaoline, kokanee, lactone, ladrone, loaners, lomenta, madrone, magneto, mangoes, manhole, mannose, manrope, marengo, masoned, megaton, menazon, menorah, moaners, momenta, monades, moneran, montage, montane, moraine, naevoid, narcose, negaton, negator, neonate, neuroma, niobate, nonages, nongame, nonmeat, nonpeak, nosebag, nosegay, notable, notated, notates, notepad, noumena, nouveau, novella, novenae, novenas, noyades, oarsmen, oceanic, octanes, odonate, omental, onagers, onstage, opaline, operand, operant, oranges, orangey, oregano, outearn, overman, overran, ownable, oxazine, ozonate, padrone, paesano, pandore, panoche, peonage, persona, phaeton, phonate, polenta, profane, pronate, propane, protean, readorn, reasons, reboant, reloans, romaine, romance, rondeau, seasons, senator, senhora, senopia, senoras, serrano, sokeman, sonance, soutane, soybean, tacnode, taloned, tangelo, tangoed, telamon, teopans, toenail, tolanes, tomenta, tonearm, tonnage, tonneau, treason, volante, wagoned, wagoner, weapons, weasons, womaned, zonated, zonulae. | |
+4 letters: abalones, abdomens, abounded, accentor, acetones, acetonic, aconites, acrogens, acrolein, adenoids, adenomas, adenoses, adenosis, adhesion, adjoined, adonises, adorners, aequorin, aeration, aerodyne, aeronaut, aeronomy, aglycone, agnomens, agonised, agonises, agonized, agonizes, ailerons, airborne, airwomen, alencons, aleurone, aleurons, alienors, allonges, almoners, alnicoes, amelcorn, amidogen, amidones, ammonite, amniotes, amoebean, amounted, amylogen, anaerobe, anagoges, analogue, ancestor, anchored, anchoret, anconeal, androgen, anecdota, anecdote, anechoic, anemones, anemoses, anemosis, aneroids, anethole, anethols, anginose, anglepod, angulose, anisoles, ankylose, annotate, announce, annoyers, annulose, anodized, anodizes, anodynes, anointed, anointer, anolytes, anoretic, anorexia, anorexic, anoxemia, anoxemic, anserous, antelope, anterior, anteroom, antidote, antihero, antinode, antipode, antipole, antipope, antrorse, aphelion, apocrine, apolunes, aquatone, arointed, aroynted, arsenous, assentor, astonied, astonies, atonable, atropine, attorned, attorney, aurorean, autodyne, autogeny, aversion, axonemal, axonemes, backbone, ballonet, ballonne, baloneys, banderol, bandores, banknote, bannerol, baritone, baronage, baroness, baronets, baronies, baronnes, barytone, baseborn, bayonets, beaconed, beanpole, bedsonia, begonias, begroans, bemoaned, benzoate, betatron, bevatron, bioclean, blazoned, blazoner, boardmen, boatsmen, bogbeans, bogeyman, bohemian, bondable, bondages, bonehead, bonemeal, boneyard, boniface, botanies, botanise, botanize, broadens, buoyance, butanone, cabezone, cabezons, calzones, cameoing, canephor, cannelon, cannoned, canoeing, canoeist, canoness, canonise, canonize, canoodle, canopied, canopies, cantoned, canzones, canzonet, caponier, caponize, capstone, careworn, carotene, cartoned, catenoid, celadons, cenotaph, centavos, chaconne, chalones, chaperon, choreman, coachmen, coagency, coagents, coarsens, coattend, cocaines, cocinera, codeinas, coenacts, coenamor, cognates, coinable, coinages, coinmate, colander, colinear, collagen, comanage, comedian, conative, concaved, concaves, conceals, conclave, conelrad, conepate, conepatl, conferva, conflate, congeals, coparent, corncake, cornmeal, coronate, cosecant, cotenant, cotquean, courante, covalent, covenant, cowbanes, cozenage, crannoge, crayoned, creation, cyanogen, cyanosed, cyanoses, daemones, daemonic, daimones, danewort, dapsones, deaconed, deaconry, debonair, decagons, delation, demeanor, demoniac, demonian, deodands, detonate, diagnose, diaphone, diocesan, dioxanes, dogbanes, dognaped, dognaper, dogvanes, dominate, donative, dopamine, downbeat, dragomen, dragonet, duodenal, dyspnoea, earphone, earstone, ecotonal, ectozoan, egomania, elations, elongate, emanator, emblazon, enactors, enactory, enamored, enamours, enations, encroach, endeavor, endocarp, endocast, endogamy, endosarc, endostea, enhaloed, enhaloes, enneagon, enolases, entozoal, entozoan, equation, erasions, estragon, ethanols, eudaemon, eulachon, eupnoeas, evasions, exaction, exonumia, expandor, facedown, falconer, falconet, farinose, farnesol, fetation, flamenco, flavones, flexagon, fontanel, foramens, forehand, foreland, forename, forerank, forewarn, forsaken, frontage, furanose, galleons, gambeson, gammoned, gammoner, gantlope, gasogene, gasolene, gasoline, gazogene, gelation, geomancy, geraniol, groaners, gynoecia, halazone, halftone, halogens, hamboned, hambones, handover, handsome, hangover, hardnose, hawknose, headlong, headnote, heptagon, hexagons, hexosans, hoarsens, hogmanes, hogmenay, homeland, hornbeam, horseman, hotelman, houseman, hyalogen, hyoidean, hypogean, hyponeas, hypopnea, ibogaine, ideation, inchoate, innovate, insolate, intonate, invocate, iodinate, ironware, jaconets, jalapeno, jargoned, jargonel, jawboned, jawboner, jawbones, jobnames, johannes, joinable, joyances, kakemono, kakiemon, kaolines, knowable, kokanees, lactones, lacunose, ladrones, laminose, lanoline, laywomen, legation, lemonade, lentando, loanable, longhead, longleaf, madrones, madwomen, magneton, magnetos, mangonel, mangrove, manholes, mannoses, manpower, manropes, marooned, megatons, melanoid, melanoma, melanous, menazons, menorahs, metazoan, metazoon, methadon, methanol, misatone, monazite, monecian, monerans, monetary, moneybag, moneyman, monstera, montaged, montages, montanes, moonbeam, moraines, nabobery, nabobess, nacreous, naloxone, napoleon, narcoses, narrowed, narrower, nauseous, negation, negatons, negators, negatron, nematode, neonatal, neonates, neoplasm, neuraxon, neuromas, neuronal, neurosal, niobates, nobleman, nominate, nondance, nonequal, nonglare, nonideal, nonimage, nonleafy, nonlegal, nonmetal, nonrated, nontaxes, normande, nosebags, noseband, nosegays, notables, notaries, notarize, notecase, notepads, noumenal, novalike, novellas, novercal, obeisant, obtained, obtainer, oceanaut, octangle, odonates, oedipean, oleander, onstream, opalines, openable, opencast, operands, operants, orangery, orangier, ordained, ordainer, ordinate, ordnance, oreganos, organdie, organise, organize, oriental, ornament, ornately, orphaned, outdance, outearns, outeaten, outlearn, outrance, outrange, ovalness, ovenware, overhand, overhang, overlain, overland, overmans, overmany, overnear, overneat, overplan, overrank, oxazines, ozonated, ozonates, padrones, paesanos, palinode, pandores, panoches, pantheon, pantofle, paranoea, pardoned, pardoner, parergon, patentor, pathogen, pavonine, pelorian, pentagon, pentanol, pentosan, peonages, peponida, peroneal, personae, personal, personas, phaetons, phelonia, phonated, phonates, pinafore, pleonasm, polentas, polypnea, pomander, portance, poundage, procaine, profaned, profaner, profanes, pronated, pronates, propanes, proteans, psoralen, ptomaine, pyranose, radiomen, raisonne, ranchero, rancored, ransomed, ransomer, rationed, ratooned, ratooner, ravenous, rawboned, reaction, readorns, reanoint, reasoned, reasoner, reawoken, regional, relation, reloaned, renegado, renogram, renovate, reobtain, reordain, reseason, resonant, resonate, responsa, rhamnose, romaines, romanced, romancer, romances, romanise, romanize, rondeaux, routeman, sandshoe, saponine, saponite, sawbones, saxonies, scenario, seaborne, seafront, seagoing, seamount, searobin, seasonal, seasoned, seasoner, sedation, semolina, senators, senhoras, senopias, senorita, sensoria, serranos, siloxane, solander, solanine, sonances, sonarmen, sonatine, sonicate, soutanes, soybeans, spadones, stanhope, starnose, stonable, subpoena, taborine, tacnodes, taconite, tailbone, takedown, tamponed, tangelos, teardown, teaspoon, tetanoid, tetragon, thionate, toenails, tolerant, tonearms, tonnages, tonneaus, tonneaux, topazine, townwear, treasons, umbonate, unatoned, unavowed, uncoated, undoable, unloaded, unloader, unornate, unreason, unsoaked, venation, venogram, veronica, vexation, voidance, volplane, waggoned, waggoner, wagonage, wagoners, wanderoo, wantoned, wantoner, weaponed, weaponry, womanise, womanize, xanthone, xenogamy, yearlong, yeomanly, yeomanry, zabaione, zabajone. | |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- . --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100101 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A e o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0065 006F 006E |
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