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coterminous

Syllables: co·ter·mi·nous/kəˈtəː.mɪ.nəs/US/kəˈtɝ.mɪ.nəs/

coterminous adjective: meeting end to end or at the ends.

Adjective

coterminous (not comparable)

  1. Meeting end to end or at the ends.
  2. Having matching boundaries; or, adjoining and sharing a boundary.
    • New York's borough of Brooklyn and Kings County are coterminous.
    • To get a building warrant he had to show the plans to "coterminous proprietors", neighbours with whom his property shared a boundary.
  3. (broadly) Having the same scope, range of meaning, or extent in time.
    • But it is purely fantastic unless we bear in mind that the governing class has been continually compelled to enlarge itself, and that its tendency is reluctantly to go on doing so until in the end it will be coterminous with the "governed class."1919, Robert Lynd, Old and New Masters
    • From this it follows at once that language and thought are not strictly coterminous.1921, Edward Sapir, Language: An introduction to the study of speech
  4. Said of linked or related property leases that expire together.

coterminous meaning in Tamil and Bengali

coterminous in Tamil

சமவெல்லையுடைய

coterminous in Bengali

একই সীমানা, সময়সীমাবিশিষ্ট

Examples of coterminous in a sentence

  • It has been the close vicinity of slave-owners to each other, the fact that their lands have been coterminous, that theirs was especially a cotton district, which has tempted them to secession.1862, Anthony Trollope, North America. […], volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
  • These eighty-two parishes were roughly coterminous with the existing seigneuries, but not always so.1915, William Bennett Munro et al., The Seigneurs of Old Canada (Chronicles of Canada), volume 5:
  • The village of Kiryas Joel, coterminous with the town of Palm Tree, is a well-known Hasidic Orthodox Jewish community.2025 June 6, Lana Bellamy, “Orthodox communities see surge in population”, in Times Union, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2025:
  • The elision of moral and moralising arguments is common, but the two aren't coterminous.2022, China Miéville, chapter 4, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:

Forms of coterminous

alternative formconterminous

Origin of coterminous

From Latin conterminus, from con- (“with”) + terminus (“border, end”), equivalent to co- + terminous. The spelling with co- instead of con- is probably influenced by the related prefix co-.

Words formed from coterminous

Questions about coterminous

What does coterminous mean?
Coterminous means meeting end to end or at the ends.
What is coterminous in Tamil?
Coterminous in Tamil is சமவெல்லையுடைய. See Coterminous meaning in Tamil.
How do you use coterminous in a sentence?
It has been the close vicinity of slave-owners to each other, the fact that their lands have been coterminous, that theirs was especially a cotton district, which has tempted them to secession.
What part of speech is coterminous?
Coterminous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce coterminous?
Coterminous is pronounced /kəˈtəː.mɪ.nəs/ (UK).

Words near coterminous in the dictionary

  1. coterminate
  2. coterminated
  3. coterminates
  4. coterminating
  5. coterminosity
  6. coterminous
  7. coterminously
  8. coterminousness
  9. cotery
  10. cotes
  11. Cotesian

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