Meaning of CONTEMPORARY
| Pronunciation: | | kun'tempu`reree
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- [n] a person of nearly the same age as another
- [adj] belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders"
- [adj] characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
- [adj] 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"
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| | Synonyms: | | coeval, contemporaneous, current, modern, modern-day, present-day(a), synchronal, synchronic, synchronous |
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| | See Also: | | compeer, equal, match, peer | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Con*tem"po*ra*ry\, a. [Pref. con- + L. temporarius
of belonging to time, tempus time. See {Temporal}, and cf.
{Contemporaneous}.]
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.
\Con*tem"po*ra*ry\, n.; pl. {Contemporaries}.
One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and
Chaucer were contemporaries.
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