coeval

UK /kəʊˈiːvəl/ US /koʊˈi.vəl/
noun 2adj 1

Definitions

adj

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

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 […]

“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.”

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