Definitions for: Contemporary

[n] a person of nearly the same age as another
[adj] belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders"
[adj] characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
[adj] occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart"

Webster (1913) Definition: Con*tem"po*ra*ry, a. [Pref. con- + L. temporarius
of belonging to time, tempus time. See Temporal, and cf.
Contemporaneous.]
1. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in,
or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.

This king [Henry VIII.] was contemporary with the
greatest monarchs of Europe. --Strype.

2. Of the same age; coeval.

A grove born with himself he sees, And loves his old
contemporary trees. --Cowley.

Con*tem"po*ra*ry, n.; pl. Contemporaries.
One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and
Chaucer were contemporaries.

Synonyms: coeval, contemporaneous, current, modern, modern-day, present-day(a), synchronal, synchronic, synchronous

See Also: compeer, equal, match, peer

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