Thesaurus: contemporary

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1. a. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
2. a. Of the same age; coeval.
3. n. One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.
4. adj. characteristic of the present
5. adj. belonging to the present time
6. adj. occurring in the same period of time
7. n. a person of nearly the same age as another
8. 1. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. This king [Henry VIII.] was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. Strype. 2. Of the same age; coeval. A grove born with himself he sees, And loves his old contemporary trees. Cowley. One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.
9. One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch andChaucer were contemporaries.
10. j:91/n:9 n. a person of nearly the same age as another s. characteristic of the present s. belonging to the present time