coeval — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Of the same age or era; contemporary.

   Usage

   • not-comparable

   Synonyms

   contemporaneous

   Examples

   Anything coeval with that clock will fetch a hefty price!

   The Baralaba Coal Measures are coeval with the Bandana Formation.

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   The latter [Rollright Stones], which has every signature of Celticism, I conceive to be coeval and perhaps of a class with Stone-henge.

   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.

   Neither are good looks any criterion; and vulgarity, or at least what a given community terms so, does not necessarily impair certain mysterious characteristics, the fey grace, the elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm that separates the nymphet from such coevals of hers as are incomparably more dependent on the spatial world of synchronous phenomena than on that intangible island of entranced time where Lolita plays with her likes.

   The differences between the Sao Khua dinosaur assemblage and the roughly coeval assemblages in China, notably those from the Jehol Group of NE China, have already been noted, and several hypotheses have been put forward, including differences in taphonomic conditions, and the existence of geographical or environmental barriers (Buffetaut et al. 2006; Fernandez et al. 2009).

   Nolan’s other major addition to Homer’s narrative is the repeated reference to threats to 'our civilisation' from 'the sea peoples'—a now debunked 19th-century theory about maritime tribes who were thought to have attacked Egypt around 1200 BCE and to have also been responsible for the roughly coeval collapse of Mycenaean Greek culture.

Noun

1. Something of the same era.

   Examples

   The telephone and television are coevals in that film.

2. Somebody of the same age.

   Examples

   […] the fey grace, the elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm that separates the nymphet from such coevals of hers […]

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   “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.”

Adjective

1. of the same period

   Synonyms

   coetaneouscontemporaneous

Noun

1. a person of nearly the same age as another

   Synonyms

   contemporary

   Broader terms

   peerequalmatchcompeer