Meanings
comparative more coetaneous · superlative most coetaneous · alternative coaetaneous · alternative coætaneous
- Belonging to the same age, era or period; coeval or contemporary.
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The beginning of [Theodore] Parker's own perplexities was almost coetaneous with the establishment of Brook Farm, for his 'Discourse of the Transient and Permanent in Religion,' which was preached at the ordination of Mr. Shackford in South Boston, on May 19, 1841, occasioned the division of the religious community for and against him.
1900, Lindsay Swift, Brook Farm: Its Members, Scholars, and Visitors, New York: Macmillan, page 251Synonyms: contemporaneous
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveBelonging to the same age, era or period; coeval or contemporary.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveof the same period
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Late Latincoaetaneus
- Late Latincoaetaneus
- Englishcoetaneous
Learned borrowing from Late Latin coaetaneus (“one of the same age”).
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