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coterminous

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11 lettersPronunciation /kəˈtəː.mɪ.nəs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted ceimnoorstuStarts with CEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. being of equal extent or scope or duration

Word origin

From Latin conterminus, from con- (“with”) + terminus (“border, end”), equivalent to co- + terminous. The spelling with co- instead of con- is probably influenced by the related prefix co-.

Used in a sentence

  • New York's borough of Brooklyn and Kings County are coterminous.
  • To get a building warrant he had to show the plans to "coterminous proprietors", neighbours with whom his property shared a boundary.
  • It has been the close vicinity of slave-owners to each other, the fact that their lands have been coterminous, that theirs was especially a cotton district, which has tempted them to secession.

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