Contemporary Definition

kən-tĕmpə-rĕrē
contemporaries
adjective
Living or happening in the same period of time.
Webster's New World
Of about the same age.
Webster's New World
Of or in the style of the present or recent times; modern.
Webster's New World

From the same time period, coexistent in time.

Wiktionary
Relatively recent.
Wiktionary
noun
contemporaries
A person living in the same period as another or others.
Webster's New World
One of the same time or age.
Shelley and Keats were contemporaries.
American Heritage
A person or thing of about the same age or date of origin as another.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Contemporary

Noun

Singular:
contemporary
Plural:
contemporaries

Origin of Contemporary

  • Recorded since 1631, from Medieval Latin contemporarius, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + temporarius (“of time”), from tempus (“time”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Medieval Latin contemporārius Latin com- com- Latin tempus tempor- time Latin -ārius -ary

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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