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English

Adjective

  1. From the same time period.
  2. modern|Modern.


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Noun

  1. Someone living at the same time.
  2. : Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Contemporary \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.
[1913 Webster]

This king [Henry VIII.] was contemporary with the
greatest monarchs of Europe. --Strype.
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2. Of the same age; coeval.
[1913 Webster]

A grove born with himself he sees,
And loves his old contemporary trees. --Cowley.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Contemporary \Con*tem"po*ra*ry\, n.; pl. Contemporaries.
1. One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch
and Chaucer were contemporaries.
[1913 Webster]

2. a person of nearly the same age as another.

Syn: coeval.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet contemporary
adj 1: characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in
design"; "the role of computers in modern-day
medicine" [syn: modern-day]
2: belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders" [syn:
present-day(a)]
3: 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" [syn: contemporaneous]
n : a person of nearly the same age as another [syn: coeval]
Moby Dictionary
a la mode , abreast , accompanying , actual , advanced , agreeing ,
as is , associated , attendant , attending , au courant , avant-garde ,
being , coetaneous , coeternal , coeval , coexistent , coexisting ,
coincident , coincidental , coinstantaneous , collateral , concomitant ,
concurrent , connected , contemporaneous , conterminous , coterminous ,
current , dead heat , draw , existent , existing , extant , far out ,
fashionable , forward-looking , fresh , immanent , immediate , in ,
instant , isochronal , isochronous , latest , linked , mod , modern ,
modernistic , modernized , modish , new , newfangled , newfashioned ,
novel , now , parallel , present , present-age , present-day ,
present-time , progressive , red-hot , related , running , simultaneous ,
streamlined , stylish , synchronal , synchronic , synchronous , that be ,
that is , tie , topical , trendy , twentieth-century , ultra-ultra ,
ultramodern , unison , unisonous , up , up-to-date , up-to-datish ,
up-to-the-minute , way out


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