coeval

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: co=e=val

CIDE DICTIONARY

coeval, a. [L. coaevus; co- + aevum lifetime, age. See Age, n.].

 Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with.  [1913 Webster]
"Silence! coeval with eternity!"  [1913 Webster]
"Oaks coeval spread a mournful shade."  [1913 Webster]

coeval, n. 

 One of the same age; a contemporary.  [1913 Webster]
"As if it were not enough to have outdone all your coevals in wit."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

coeval, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 having the same age or date of origin.
2 living or existing at the same epoch.
3 having the same duration.
--n. a coeval person, a contemporary.

Derivative

coevality n. coevally adv.

Etymology

LL coaevus (as CO-, L aevum age)

THESAURUS

coeval

accompanying, agreeing, atavistic, bodily, born, coetaneous, coeternal, coexistent, coexisting, coinstantaneous, collateral, concomitant, concurrent, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, contemporaneous, contemporary, conterminous, coterminous, dead heat, draw, genetic, hereditary, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, isochronal, isochronous, native, native to, natural, natural to, organic, physical, primal, simultaneous, synchronal, synchronic, synchronous, temperamental, tie, unison, unisonous

ROGET THESAURUS

coeval

Synchronism

N synchronism, coexistence, coincidence, simultaneousness, simultaneity, concurrence, concomitance, unity of time, interim, isochronism, contemporary, coetanian, synchronous, synchronal, synchronic, synchronical, synchronistical, simultaneous, coexisting, coincident, concomitant, concurrent, coeval, coevous, contemporary, contemporaneous, coetaneous, coeternal, isochronous, at the same time, simultaneously, together, in concert, during the same time, in the same breath, pari passu, in the interim, as one, at the very moment, just as, as soon as, meanwhile.