Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
coevals is a noun meaning "all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age". It carries one recorded sense.
all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for coevals come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.