coeval

Other forms of coeval

plural

coevals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about coeval

What does coeval mean?

coeval means "a person of nearly the same age as another". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coeval?

coeval has 3 syllables: co-e-val. The stress falls on "co".

What is another word for coeval?

Close synonyms include contemporary, coetaneous, contemporaneous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coeval a common word?

coeval is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.