coextensive

adjective

co·​ex·​ten·​sive ˌkō-ik-ˈsten(t)-siv How to pronounce coextensive (audio)
: having the same spatial or temporal scope or boundaries
coextensively adverb

Examples of coextensive in a Sentence

South Dakota's Todd County is coextensive with the Rosebud Sioux Reservation. the golden age of Dutch culture was roughly coextensive with the Netherlands' reign as a world power
Recent Examples on the Web The exotic animal was brought by ambassadors from the distant south, possibly from Nubia (a kingdom on the Nile roughly coextensive with modern Sudan). Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020 Being online was not coextensive with being alive. Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022 The effect is like one of those montage reels that clutter up the Academy Awards broadcast — all the best bits of the last year run together to suggest that your personal memory of the past is exactly coextensive with Hollywood’s manufacture of fantasy. Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022 How can its digital platforms become coextensive with its in-person programming, without losing the uniqueness of each? New York Times, 21 May 2021 The comparison with Lauren Bacall suggests a connection between kinds of beauty, or suggests, rather, that there’s always and only one beauty, which is coextensive with the life of God. Christian Wiman, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020 In a few decades the internet has swallowed the record, and become coextensive with it. Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2019 These bonds always threaten to become chains for Baldwin, and lineage seems coextensive with numbing repetition. Ismail Muhammad, Slate Magazine, 15 Feb. 2017

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Word History

First Known Use

1679, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of coextensive was in 1679

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“Coextensive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coextensive. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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coextensive

adjective
co·​ex·​ten·​sive ˌkō-ik-ˈsten(t)-siv How to pronounce coextensive (audio)
: having the same length or boundaries in space or time
coextensively adverb
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