coeval

noun

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Pronunciation: /kəʊˈiːvəl/ / /koʊˈi.vəl/

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

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.”

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

Something of the same era.
“The telephone and television are coevals in that film.”
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.””