COEVALS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coevals mean? 

• COEVALS (noun)
  The noun COEVALS has 1 sense:

1. all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

  Familiarity information: COEVALS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COEVALS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

All the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

coevals; contemporaries; generation

Hypernyms ("coevals" is a kind of...):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coevals"):

youth culture (young adults (a generational unit) considered as a cultural class or subculture)

peer group (contemporaries of the same status)

 Context examples 

The Draculas were, says Arminius, a great and noble race, though now and again were scions who were held by their coevals to have had dealings with the Evil One.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)