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codefendant

codefendant noun: any of several defendants answering the same charge.

Noun

codefendant (plural codefendants)

  1. Any of several defendants answering the same charge.

codefendant meaning in Tamil

codefendant in Tamil

உடன் பிரதிவாதி, உடன் எதிர்வாதி, உடன் எதிர் வழக்காளி

Forms of codefendant

pluralcodefendants
alternative formco-defendant

Origin of codefendant

From co- + defendant.

Questions about codefendant

What does codefendant mean?
Codefendant means any of several defendants answering the same charge.
What is codefendant in Tamil?
Codefendant in Tamil is உடன் பிரதிவாதி, உடன் எதிர்வாதி, உடன் எதிர் வழக்காளி. See Codefendant meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is codefendant?
Codefendant is a noun.
What is the plural of codefendant?
The plural of codefendant is codefendants.

Words near codefendant in the dictionary

  1. coded
  2. coded up
  3. codedness
  4. codeface
  5. codefaces
  6. codefendant
  7. codefendants
  8. codefest
  9. codefests
  10. codefine
  11. codefined

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Adapted from Wiktionary: codefendant (page history and authors); codefendant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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