单词 | age mate |
释义 | age maten. Now chiefly Cultural Anthropology and Sociology. A person of the same age, or belonging to the same age group; a contemporary, a peer. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [noun] > contemporary contemporany?a1475 contemporant1577 time-fellow1577 age mate1582 contemporana1600 coeval1605 coetane1610 collateral1614 contemporary1614 concurrent1622 coequal1631 contemporanean1633 coetanean1636 contemporista1641 temporary1649 synchronist1716 yealing1728 fellow1844 age-fellow1845 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 37 Whilst I beheld Priamus thus gasping, my syre his adgemate [L. aequaevum]. 1862 R. Buchanan Vow in Glentreuil (ed. 2) 11 Here too mine age-mate neighbours one by one, And year by year, they drop. 1888 A. Nutt Stud. Legend Holy Grail vi. 158 He grows up fierce and stalwart, overcomes all his age-mates. 1920 Q. Rev. July 171 Age-mates are associated at initiation. 1965 New Society 6 May 11/1 These children saw their environment as more threatening than did their agemates. 2001 D. Fontenelle Parent's Guide to solving School Probl. vii. xiv. 179 The child may be able to relate very well with adults..but has difficulty relating to his age mates. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1582 |
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