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Meanings of coevals in English

Portuguese
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Catalan
generació
Spanish
generación

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

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Usage of coevals in English
1
In the first place, you have no coevals, or next to none.
Over the Teacups
2
He hated to be called Tommy, except by a few intimate coevals.
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
3
They were coevals, and had nothing but that and their benchership in common.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 / Elia and The Las...
4
I could depend on a kind welcome from my contemporaries,-mycoevals.
Over the Teacups
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When many of his coevals were showing signs of senescence, he remained physically young.
Last and First Men
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Some of our coevals may, for aught we know, be very great, but good heavens!
And Even Now
7
The growth of this city and the Constitution of the United States are coevals and contemporaries.
The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster / With an Essa...
8
Only the mountains old, Only the waters cold, Only the moon and stars, My coevals are.
The Desert and the Sown
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And from his speeches I was able to deduce the manner of his coevals and his forerunners.
Yet Again
10
He had now been attending the day-school for about a year, and was distinctly ahead of his coevals.
Born in Exile
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But, for some reason which his immature mind could not fathom, he felt a pariah even among his coevals.
The Fortunate Youth
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Does he hope to secure a hearing from those who have come into the reading world since his coevals?
Over the Teacups
13
Go to thy home; glad the eyes of thy mother; enjoy the honours thou wilt find awaiting thee amongst thy coevals.
Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters / An Unfini...
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But he dissuaded me, telling me that my coevals of the next age would no doubt take it as a novel.
The Revolutions of Time
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Not only is there interest in rapidly widening associations with coevals, but a new lust to push on and up to maturity.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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Why then does he continue to trifle with his thread-bare adolescents, as if he were afraid to write candidly about his coevals?
Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920)
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Translations for coevals
Portuguese
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Coevals through the time