coeval
发音
How to pronounce coeval in British English: 英 [kəʊˈi:vl]
How to pronounce coeval in American English: 美 [koʊˈivl]
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- Noun:
- a person of nearly the same age as another
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- Adjective:
- of the same period
单词词源
- coeval (adj.)
- "having the same age," formed in English early 17c. from Late Latin coaevus, from Latin com- "equal" (see co-) + aevum "an age" (see eon). As a noun from c. 1600.
双语例句
- 1. Dr wrangham thus believes that cooking and humanity are coeval .
- 2. Such an eye was not born when the bird was , but is coeval with the sky it reflects .
- 3. The capabilities of different triassic marine rock types for preservation of coeval seawater information in the huaying mountain of eastern sichuan .