coeval
/koʊˈivəl/
adjective
- Having the same age or date of origin; existing at the same time.
- The rise of the internet was roughly coeval with the fall of the Soviet Union.
- These volcanic rocks are coeval with the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs.
- The two manuscripts are coeval, both written in the 12th century.
noun
- A person or thing that is the same age or from the same time period as another.
- As coevals in the same generation, they shared many cultural experiences.
- Shakespeare and Cervantes were coevals, though they never met.
- The fossil is a coeval of the earliest known flowering plants.
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