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coeval

/kəʊˈiːvəl/US/koʊˈi.vəl/

coeval adjective: of the same age or era; contemporary.

Adjective

coeval (not comparable)

  1. Of the same age or era; contemporary.
    • Anything coeval with that clock will fetch a hefty price!
    • The Baralaba Coal Measures are coeval with the Bandana Formation.

Noun

coeval (plural coevals)

  1. Something of the same era.
    • The telephone and television are coevals in that film.
  2. Somebody of the same age.
    • […] the fey grace, the elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm that separates the nymphet from such coevals of hers […]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
    • “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.”1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 77

coeval meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Persian

coeval in Tamil

சம காலத்திய, ஒரே காலத்தைச் சேர்ந்த, ஒரே வயதான, ஒரே காலத்தவர்

coeval in Bengali

একই সময়কালের, সমবয়সী

coeval in Kannada

ಓರಗೆಯ, ಸಮಕಾಲಿಕ, ಸಮಕಾಲೀನ, ಸಮವಯಸ್ಕ, ಒಂದೇವಯಸ್ಸಿನವನು

coeval in Persian

of the same age
همسال hamsâl

Examples of coeval in a sentence

  • The latter [Rollright Stones], which has every signature of Celticism, I conceive to be coeval and perhaps of a class with Stone-henge.1782, Thomas Warton, The History and Antiquities of Kiddington:
  • 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.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 27:

Synonyms of coeval

All synonyms of coeval

Forms of coeval

Adjective
alternative formcoëval
alternative form (archaic)coæval
Noun
pluralcoevals

Origin of coeval

From Late Latin coaevus, from Latin con- (“equal”) + aevum (“age”).

Words formed from coeval

Questions about coeval

What does coeval mean?
Coeval means of the same age or era; contemporary.
What is coeval in Tamil?
Coeval in Tamil is சம காலத்திய, ஒரே காலத்தைச் சேர்ந்த, ஒரே வயதான. See Coeval meaning in Tamil.
How do you use coeval in a sentence?
The latter [Rollright Stones], which has every signature of Celticism, I conceive to be coeval and perhaps of a class with Stone-henge.
What part of speech is coeval?
Coeval can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce coeval?
Coeval is pronounced /kəʊˈiːvəl/ (UK).

Words near coeval in the dictionary

  1. Coetzee
  2. Coetzeean
  3. Coeur d'Alene
  4. coeur à la crème
  5. Coeus
  6. coeval
  7. coevalist
  8. coevalists
  9. coevality
  10. coevally
  11. coevals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coeval (page history and authors); coeval (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); coeval (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); coeval (Kannada 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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