coevals

Questions about coevals

What does coevals mean?

coevals means "all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age".

How many syllables are in coevals?

coevals has 3 syllables and divides as co-e-vals under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for coevals?

Close synonyms include contemporaries, generation. 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 coevals a common word?

coevals 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.