CODEFENDANT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

co-defendant; codefendant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)