Coeval

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Coeval \Co*e"val\, a. [L. coaevus; co- + aevum lifetime, age.
     See {Age}, n.]
     Of the same age; existing during the same period of time,
     especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with.
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           Silence! coeval with eternity!           --Pope.
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           Oaks coeval spread a mournful shade.     --Cowper.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Coeval \Co*e"val\, n.
     One of the same age; a contemporary.
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           As if it were not enough to have outdone all your
           coevals in wit.                          --Pope.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  coeval
       adj : of the same period [syn: {coetaneous}, {contemporaneous}]
       n : a person of nearly the same age as another [syn: {contemporary}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "coeval":
     accompanying, agreeing, atavistic, bodily, born, coetaneous,
     coeternal, coexistent, coexisting, coinstantaneous, collateral,
     concomitant, concurrent, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural,
     constitutional, contemporaneous, contemporary, conterminous,
     coterminous, dead heat, draw, genetic, hereditary, in the blood,
     inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate,
     instinctive, instinctual, isochronal, isochronous, native,
     native to, natural, natural to, organic, physical, primal,
     simultaneous, synchronal, synchronic, synchronous, temperamental,
     tie, unison, unisonous