Time periods
The crossword clue "Time periods" is answered by EONS, a 4-letter entry. Used 22 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2007; first recorded in 1959. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
EONS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EONS answer page.
Used 22 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2007; first recorded in 1959. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- AEONS (4 uses in xd)
Other clues for EONS
Every other clue in this collection answered by EONS, most used first.
- Ages and ages - used 203 times, most recently in 2026
- Billions of years - used 111 times, most recently in 2026
- Seemingly forever - used 93 times, most recently in 2026
- Ages - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- Many millennia - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
- Eternities - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
- Years and years - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Long periods of time - used 36 times, most recently in 2024
- Long, long times - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Geologic periods - used 29 times, most recently in 2021
- Long periods - used 28 times, most recently in 2025
- Long, long time - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
- Ages upon ages - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
- Very long time - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- At any time - EVER, used 696 times
- A single time - ONCE, used 296 times
- "Once ___ a time ..." - UPON, used 284 times
- Historical periods - ERAS, used 232 times
- Historic periods - ERAS, used 183 times
- A long time - AGES, used 156 times
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