coed
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9.1
- noun
- /ˈkoʊˌɛd/
- Archaic
:
alumna
- There's a reason why people before your generation and actually before mine, used to use the word Coed a lot.
- college coeds
- American coeds
- young coeds
Judge Ethan has never shown his penis to coeds, at least that we know about.
- Judge Ethan has never shown his penis to coeds, at least that we know about.
Examples
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And he used to score five nights out of the week... with the most beautiful coeds on campus.
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In the same way, I work in a college town with gaggles of gorgeous coeds wandering around.
Blog text (19) -
Does anybody ever call you a Coed that you ever heard that term?
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The coeds are in big trouble, I mean big trouble.
Fiction book (1993) -
Suddenly, housewives and college coeds who generally avoid athletic events with a passion are taking sides in this battle between the giants.
Academic text (2014) -
"I think being grad students qualifies us as Harvard coeds."
Fiction book (2001) -
Not only had I become a statistic, whispered about on campus; worse, I was expected to resume my life as a happy coed, playing bridge, painting my nails, and gossiping about boyfriends.
Fiction book (1992) -
During the lecture, a bright coed raised her hand to ask an insightful question.
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In her first year at university, every coed was excited to meet new friends.
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The campus was filled with coeds enjoying the spring weather on their lunch breaks.
Synonyms
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2.0
A young woman who studies at a college or university
A woman who studies at a college with both men and women
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
coed = coeducational (semi-transparent) = co + educ
Historically used to refer specifically to a female student at a coeducational institution; the leap from 'coeducational' to 'female student' is not a regular compositional inference.
Etymology
Coed was once used as a noun for a female student at a mixed school and comes from co- ('together') and education, so a coed was literally a student 'in a school with both men and women', though this use is now old-fashioned.