Contemporaneous meaning

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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 happening in the same period of time.
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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

  • In that case the later rulers of the Dynasty of Isin would have been contemporaneous with the earlier rulers of Dynasty I.

  • But inscriptions recently discovered, by showing that the second dynasty was partly contemporaneous with the first and the third, have proved that these dates are too high: see L.

  • As yet the name of only one of them has been found in a contemporaneous document.

  • 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."

  • The visit to Vienna took place on the 17th to the 22nd of September, and that to Berlin on the 22nd to the 26th of September 1873, the Italian monarch being accorded in both capitals a most cordial reception, although the contemporaneous publication of La Marmoras famous pamphlet, More Light on 1/fe Events of i866, prevented intercourse between the Italian ministers and Bismarck from being entirely confidential.

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