Thesaurus:eon
English
editNoun
editSense: A long, unspecified amount of time
editSynonyms
edit- aeon
- age [⇒ thesaurus]
- ages (hyperbolic)
- blue moon
- coon's age (idiomatic, US)
- crow's age (idiomatic)
- dog's age (idiomatic, US)
- donkey's years (idiomatic, Britain)
- eld (archaic or poetic)
- eon
- eternity [⇒ thesaurus] (hyperbolic)
- forever [⇒ thesaurus] (hyperbolic)
- forever and a day
- interim [⇒ thesaurus]
- interlude
- interval
- lifetime (hyperbolic)
- long haul (idiomatic)
- long run (idiomatic)
- meantime
- minute (slang, US & Canada)
- month of Sundays
- spell
- while [⇒ thesaurus] (US)
- years (hyperbolic)
- yonks (Britain, Australia, New Zealand)
Antonyms
editHypernyms
edit- period [⇒ thesaurus]
- uncertain period [⇒ thesaurus]
Various
edit- time immemorial
- time out of mind (idiomatic)
- until one is blue in the face (idiomatic)
- until the cows come home (idiomatic)
- yottasecond
Further reading
edit- “106. time” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “eon” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.