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coterminous

PRONUNCIATION:

(koh-TUHR-muh-nuhs)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Having the same or coincident boundaries.
2. Meeting at the ends.
3. Contained within the same boundaries.
4. Having the same scope, meaning, extent, etc.: synonymous.

ETYMOLOGY:

Alteration of conterminous, from Latin con- (with) + terminus (boundary). Earliest documented use: 1799.

USAGE:

“The perfect manual of style would be like the perfect map of the world: exactly coterminous with its subject, containing a rule for every word of every sentence.”
Louis Menand; The End Matter; The New Yorker; Oct 6, 2003.

See more usage examples of coterminous in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again. -Anne Frank, Holocaust diarist (12 Jun 1929-1945)

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