Contemporary
WordNet
adjective
(1) Belonging to the present time
"Contemporary leaders"
(2) Characteristic of the present
"Contemporary trends in design"
"The role of computers in modern-day medicine"
(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"
noun
(4) A person of nearly the same age as another
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Etymology
Recorded since 1631, from Medieval contemporarius, from Latin con- "with, together" + temporarius "of time" (from tempus "time")
Adjective
Noun
- Someone living at the same time.
- Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare
- Any creature living at the same time.
- The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries
- Something existing at the same time.
- Often contemporary customs differ as if dating from different ages, whether they do or not