age-mates

Same generation cohort

Age-mates are people of roughly the same age, especially when that shared age creates a social bond or basis for comparison.

The term appears most often in anthropology and developmental psychology, describing peer groups in traditional societies or children who move through stages together: Age-mates underwent initiation rites as a group.

In casual use, it simply means contemporaries: She and her age-mates remember a world before smartphones.

childhood

playmates

Companions in recreation

playground · recess · nursery · youth · adolescence · upbringing · growing · puberty · milestones · memories

cohort

generation

Age-defined peer group

classmates · schoolmates · graduates · demographic · conscription · recruits · inductees · cadre · epoch · era

peers

friends

Voluntary close relations

companions · confidants · chums · cronies · teammates · acquaintances · associates · allies · partners · sidekicks

Opposites
generational position

age-mateselders

Senior community members

juniors · seniors · youngers · forebears · ancestors

social familiarity/peer status

age-matessuperiors

Those of higher rank

subordinates · authority figures · mentors · protégés · guardians

Family

age, mate, ages, aged, ageing, mates, mated, mating, matey

Familiarity
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