CODEFENDANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does codefendant mean? 

• CODEFENDANT (noun)
  The noun CODEFENDANT has 1 sense:

1. a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action

  Familiarity information: CODEFENDANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CODEFENDANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

co-defendant; codefendant

Hypernyms ("codefendant" is a kind of...):

defendant; suspect (a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "codefendant"):

co-respondent; corespondent (the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding)

respondent (the codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is accused of adultery with the corespondent)