What is another word for coevals?

Pronunciation: [kˌə͡ʊɪvˈalz] (IPA)

Coevals refer to people or things that are of the same age or era. Some of the synonyms for coevals include contemporaries, peers, counterparts, and compeers. Contemporaries can be used to describe people who live in the same period or age, while peers refer to people who are equal in rank, social status, or age. Counterparts, on the other hand, refers to people or things that are equivalents or similar in some respects. Finally, compeers are people who are colleagues or associates who perform the same or similar work or shares similar interests. All these synonyms can be used interchangeably with coevals to describe people who were born or existed in the same period or era.

What are the hypernyms for Coevals?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Coevals?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for coevals (as nouns)

Usage examples for Coevals

I claim that congeniality with you which I have found not among my own coevals.
"Devereux, Book I."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The one was the love of a man of six-and-twenty, exceptionally seasoned and experienced and responsible for his years, for a girl still at school, a girl attractively beautiful, mysterious and unknown to him; the other was the love of coevals, who had been playmates and intimate companions, and of whom the woman was certainly as capable and wilful as the man.
"The Passionate Friends"
Herbert George Wells
He imagined the face grown all at once haggard and tired and afraid-afraid with a great fear of what must happen in a few years at the latest, when, with middle-age heavy upon his shoulders, he should see his coevals prospering and himself bankrupt of his stock-in-trade of good looks, and without one penny to rub against another.
"The Truants"
A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

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