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A person of nearly the same age as another
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coeval
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Word definitions for coeval in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coeval \Co*e"val\, n. One of the same age; a contemporary. As if it were not enough to have outdone all your coevals in wit. --Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"having the same age," formed in English early 17c. from Late Latin coaevus , from Latin com- "equal" (see co- ) + aevum "an age" (see eon ). As a noun from c.1600.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of the same period [syn: coetaneous , contemporaneous ] n. a person of nearly the same age as another [syn: contemporary ]
Usage examples of coeval.
Constitution are fatal to the reservation of sovereignty by the States, the Constitution furnishes a conclusive answer in the amendment which was coeval with the adoption of the instrument, and which declares that all powers not delegated to the Government of the Union were reserved to the States or to the people.
Atlantis--certainly to that ancient Egyptian civilization which was coeval with, and an outgrowth from, Atlantis.
Palestine are coeval with the first crusade, they may be ranked with the most ancient of the Latin world.
The lonely horseman riding between the moonlight and the day sees vast shadows creeping across the shelterless and silent plains, hears strange noises in the primeval forest, where flourishes a vegetation long dead in other lands, and feels, despite his fortune, that the trim utilitarian civilisation which bred him shrinks into insignificance beside the contemptuous grandeur of forest and ranges coeval with an age in which European scientists have cradled his own race.
Europe since the Council of Vienne, there was a self-conscious methodological principle at work as a coeval with scholarly discipline.
I often reproached my dear friend and classmate, Tames Freeman Clarke, that his ceaseless labors made it impossible for his coevals to enjoy the luxury of that repose which their years demanded.
The children of my coevals were fast getting gray and bald, and their children beginning to look upon the world as belonging to them, and not to their sires and grandsires.
His coevals have dropped away by scores and tens, and he sees only a few units scattered about here and there, like the few beads above the water after a ship has gone to pieces.
An old woman, who seemed coeval with the building, and greatly resembled her whom Chamont mentions in the Orphan, received us at the gate, and in a howl scarce human, and to me unintelligible, welcomed her master home.
Surely with mankind the appreciation of flowers must have been coeval with the poetry of love.
The Union and the States are coeval, born together, and can exist only together.
One would hardly have expected this sort of infatuation in a man who always wore the same suit, and it a suit that seemed coeval with the Conquest.
I claim that congeniality with you which I have found not among my own coevals.
They were coeval with the coureurs des bois, or rangers of the woods, already noticed, and, like them, in the intervals of their long, arduous, and laborious expeditions, were prone to pass their time in idleness and revelry about the trading posts or settlements.
That they had some "fowling-pieces" is shown by the fact that young Billington seems (according to Bradford) to have "shot one off in his father's cabin" aboard ship in Cape Cod harbor, and there are several other coeval mentions of them.