Age-mate

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who is the same age as another.

    "It had made him live a life unlike that of most of his age-mates, a reclusive, provincial life."

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"It had made him live a life unlike that of most of his age-mates, a reclusive, provincial life."

Etymology

From age + -mate.

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