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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Originating or existing during the same period; lasting through the same era.
  2. n. One of the same era or period; a contemporary.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of the same age; having lived for an equal period.
  2. Existing from the same point of time; coincident in duration: followed by with, sometimes by to.
  3. Coincident in time; contemporary; synchronous: followed by with.
  4. Synonyms Coeval, Contemporaneous. Coeval is more commonly applied to things, contemporaneous to persons; but the distinction is not a rigid one.
  5. n. One of the same age or period; a contemporary in age or active existence.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of the same age; contemporary.
  2. n. Something of the same era or age.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with.
  2. n. One of the same age; a contemporary.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of the same period
  2. n. a person of nearly the same age as another

Etymologies

  1. Late Latin coævus, from Latin: com- ("equal") in combination with aevum ("age"). (Wiktionary)
  2. From Late Latin coaevus : co-, co- + aevum, age; see aiw- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. contemporary
  1. contemporaneous

equivalents (3)

Other words for ‘coeval’

  1. synchronal
  1. synchronic
  1. synchronous

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. peer
  1. compeer
  1. equal
  1. match

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. akin
  2. twelfth-century
  3. authors
  4. unoffended
  1. over-subtle
  2. nonphysical
  3. insurmountable
  4. unsolvable
  1. coexistent
  2. ten-thirty
  3. motiveless
  4. demons'
  1. consanguineous
  2. anti-us
  3. irresistable
  4. transmissible
  1. impassible
  2. half-past
  3. coincident
  4. topics
  1. invulnerable
  2. generous-minded
  3. unseat
  4. meant

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. coevous
  1. contemporaneous
  1. coeval
  1. mammoth
  1. contemporary
  1. coevality
  1. coetaneous

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  • yarb The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

    - Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 7 ch. 7 Sep 30, 2008

  • sarra Another specific person! Sep 17, 2008

  • dontcry Another what? May 30, 2008

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