coed

or co-ed

[ koh-ed, -ed ]

/ ˈkoʊˈɛd, -ˌɛd /

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noun

Older Use. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.

adjective

coeducational (def. 1).

Older Use. of, relating to, or being a coed or coeds: coed fads.

for or serving both men and women alike.

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Origin of coed

1885–90, Americanism; short for coeducational student

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How to use coed in a sentence

The effort to sterilize his image first began when Epstein hired Los Angeles-based spin doctors Sitrick Co.
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Reached Tuesday, a Sitrick Co. rep confirmed they parted ways with Epstein in April 2011.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking|M.L. Nestel|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
They say it's frightening how the real CIA is perceived to be as clueless as Archer Co.
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Eva Silverman, who co-hosts an Oakland Dinner Party, agrees.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone|Samantha Levine|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Ed Brooke, the first African-American Senator since Reconstruction, embraced fights with the left and right.
Ed Brooke: The Senate's Civil Rights Pioneer and Prophet of a Post-Racial America|John Avlon|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.
Children's Ways|James Sully
The conception of the relation of this institution with them as co-operative makes headway slowly.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
Then they were to co-operate with an army moving up from Arkansas, and the State would be redeemed.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
And the Process or Method of study, if it be an Assimilating one, also compels this co-operation.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
The leaguers were now anxious to co-operate with the Americans in compelling the Spaniards to evacuate the Archipelago.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman

British Dictionary definitions for coed

co-ed

/ (ˌkəʊˈɛd) /

adjective

coeducational

noun

US a female student in a coeducational college or university

British a school or college providing coeducation

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