coevals
People same age
Coevals are people of the same age or era—contemporaries.
The word emphasizes shared generational experience: Einstein and his coevals revolutionized physics.
As an adjective, coeval describes things existing at the same time: The two manuscripts are coeval.
The term is somewhat formal and literary, more common in historical or academic writing than everyday speech.
Students in same course
- schoolmatesStudents attending together
- playmatesCompanions in recreation
- cohortGroup sharing circumstances
- batchmatesPeers from same cohort
Matches in value
- colleaguesProfessional associates
- fellowsCompanions or associates
- counterpartsEquivalent persons or things
- companionsThose who accompany
associates · comrades · confreres · cohorts · rivals · competitors · like-minded · rank
classmates
Students in same course
- schoolmatesStudents attending together
- playmatesCompanions in recreation
- cohortGroup sharing circumstances
batchmates · peers · contemporaries · fellows
equals
Matches in value
- colleaguesProfessional associates
- fellowsCompanions or associates
- counterpartsEquivalent persons or things
companions · associates · comrades · confreres · cohorts · rivals · competitors · like-minded · rank · standing
generation
Age-defined peer group
zeitgeist · milieu · movement · school · salon · coterie · scene · modernists · romantics · beats
coevalselders
Senior community members
juniors · predecessors · successors · ancestors · descendants