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coed

American  
[koh-ed, -ed] / ˈkoʊˈɛd, -ˌɛd /
Or co-ed

noun

  • coeds
    plural
  1. Older Use. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.


adjective

  1. coeducational.

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

    coed fads.

  3. for or serving both men and women alike.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of coed

1885–90, short for coeducational student


Example Sentences

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He even met his wife while playing a coed kickabout in Washington, D.C.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

I said we’re going to have men and women here, and they said, “No, no, there’s never any coed bathing here.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

The conditions they face are often punishing: In Mexico, platforms are isolated with limited communication, living situations are dorm-style and sometimes coed, and many workers have short-term contracts with little protection.

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2023

Under pressure from Congress, the Marines over the past four years gradually made the 4th Battalion coed, then disbanded it in June.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2023

My brother Mickey went to Textiles High, and that school was coed.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

Mr. Harbach has likely exposed himself to criticism by anatomizing feminist politics and assuming the perspectives of 20-something coeds, though I think his characterizations are generous and insightful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

A collection of female coeds go out on Halloween night, pick up a couple of dudes and end up at an extreme horror-themed, haunted-house maze featuring typical scares.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

The two coeds talked of their ambitions, how they would change the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2018

John put it this way: “College towns were once rife with cinderblock bunkers where coeds ate wings and burgers. Today, Athens is a mature restaurant town.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2016

Sleek, mahogany motorboats roared by, on their way from Lake Washington into the Cut, coeds in bathing suits perched on the rear decks waving at them as they passed.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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