coeval
See also: coëval
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Etymology edit
From Late Latin coaevus, from Latin con- (“equal”) + aevum (“age”).
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Adjective edit
coeval (not comparable)
- Of the same age; contemporary.
- Synonyms: contemporaneous; see also Thesaurus:contemporary
- Anything coeval with that clock will fetch a hefty price!
- The Baralaba Coal Measures are coeval with the Bandana Formation.
- 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 27:
- 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.
- 2009, Eric Buffetaut, Late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Ecosystems in SE Asia:
- The differences between the Sao Khua dinosaur assemblage and the roughly coeval assemblages in China, notably those from the Jehol Group of NE China, have already been noted, and several hypotheses have been put forward, including differences in taphonomic conditions, and the existence of geographical or environmental barriers (Buffetaut et al. 2006; Fernandez et al. 2009).
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of the same age
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Noun edit
coeval (plural coevals)
- Something of the same era.
- The telephone and television are coevals in that film.
- Somebody of the same age.
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 1, page 19:
- […] the fey grace, the elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm that separates the nymphet from such coevals of hers […]
- 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, →ISBN, page 77:
- “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.”
Translations edit
something of the same era
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somebody of the same age