coetanean
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
coetanean (plural coetaneans)
- One who is the contemporary of another.
- late 17th century, John Aubrey, "Sir Walter Raleigh", in Brief Lives
- a […] coetanean of the late Earle of Southampton
- late 17th century, John Aubrey, "Sir Walter Raleigh", in Brief Lives
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “coetanean”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)