Contemporaneous definition

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Existing or happening in the same period of time.
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The definition of contemporaneous is things that exist or occur at the same time.

When two people are both alive during the same time period, this is an example of a situation where those people are contemporaneous with each other.

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Originating, existing, or happening during the same period of time.

The contemporaneous reigns of two monarchs.

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Existing or created in the same period of time.

Look in other contemporaneous works to see whether that idea was common then.

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Origin of contemporaneous

  • Latin contemporāneus com- com- tempus tempor- time -āneus adj. suff.

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

Contemporaneous Sentence Examples

  • Of the work of Cyriac of Ancona, written about 1450, only some fragments remain, which are well supplemented by the contemporaneous description of the capable observer known as the " Anonymus of Milan."

  • Contemporaneous with these were various schemes of classification which were based, not on a consideration of the entire structure of each animal, but on the variations of a single organ, or on the really non-significant fact of the structure of the egg.

  • On the other hand, the impartial historical student cannot compare the Thirty-nine Articles with the contemporaneous canons and decrees of the council of Trent without being impressed by striking contrasts between the two sets of dogmas.

  • Igneous rocks are not extensively developed; in Wales they form an important feature and occur in considerable thickness; they are represented by lavas of olivine-diabase and by contemporaneous tuffs which are traversed by later granite and quartz felsite.

  • The tendency among adherents of the south Galatian theory is to put the epistle as early as possible, making it contemporaneous with, if not prior to, 1 Thessalonians.

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