coeval

UK/kәu'i:vәl/US

GREC2

Definitions

adj.

Existing during the same period of time; of the same age or era.

同时代的，同龄的。

A person or thing of the same age or era as another; a contemporary.

同时代的人或事物。

Root Breakdown

Root-derived

co-together, with

evage, era, lifetime

-alrelating to, having the nature of

=coeval

co- (together) + ev (age, from aevum) + -al = 'of the same age.' A formal, literary word for things existing in the same period. It is the aev-based counterpart of 'contemporary' (which is built on tempor).

Root aev still carries 6 more words

Common Collocations

1.coeval with与……同时代
2.roughly coeval大致同时代

Example Sentences

1.
The temple is coeval with the earliest pyramids.
2.
He studied poets coeval with Shakespeare.

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