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Definition of "concomitant" [con•com•i•tant]

  • Occurring or existing concurrently; attendant. See Synonyms at contemporary. (adjective)
  • One that occurs or exists concurrently with another. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "concomitant" in a sentence
  • "Would not this require that memory or reflection in children, which, in another place, is called the concomitant of prudence and age, and not of childhood?"
  • "Moreover, it is concomitant, that is, under its form of pleasure or of pain, of hope, of spite, of anger, etc., it accompanies all the phases or turns of creation."
  • "Do not mistake my friends, he was not alluding to the "concomitant," the key bearer, the riveter of fetters in that deplorable episode in our national history."