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coeval

adj
/kəʊˈiːvəl/UK/koʊˈi.vəl/US

Etymology

From Late Latin coaevus, from Latin con- (“equal”) + aevum (“age”).

  1. derived from con- — “equal”
  2. derived from coaevus

Definitions

  1. Of the same age or era

    Of the same age or era; contemporary.

    • Anything coeval with that clock will fetch a hefty price!
    • The Baralaba Coal Measures are coeval with the Bandana Formation.
    • If, however, Orientalists be right in their interpretation of the name of Artaxerxes' queen, Parisatis, as Pari-zadeh (Peri-born), the Peri must be coeval with the religion of Zoroaster.

  2. Something of the same era.

    • The telephone and television are coevals in that film.

  3. Somebody of the same age.

    • […] the fey grace, the elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm that separates the nymphet from such coevals of hers […]
    • “That's your coeval, Keluga. He's trying to write the entire Roget's as a series of nested, rule-based schematics. Containment, relation, exclusion . . .” “Coeval? I'm thirty-five, Lentz. That guy's a kid.”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA