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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Contemporary \Con*tem"po*ra*ry\, adjective [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Contemporary \Con*tem"po*ra*ry\, noun; pl. {Contemporaries}.
1. One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.
2. a person of nearly the same age as another.
Syn: coeval. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
contemporary
adjective
1: characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine" [syn: {modern-day}]
2: belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders" [syn: {present-day(a)}]
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" [syn: {contemporaneous}]
noun: a person of nearly the same age as another [syn: {coeval}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "contemporary": a la mode, abreast, accompanying, actual, advanced, agreeing, as is, associated, attendant, attending, au courant, avant-garde, being, coetaneous, coeternal, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coincident, coincidental, coinstantaneous, collateral, concomitant, concurrent, connected, contemporaneous, conterminous, coterminous, current, dead heat, draw, existent, existing, extant, far out, fashionable, forward-looking, fresh, immanent, immediate, in, instant, isochronal, isochronous, latest, linked, mod, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, new, newfangled, newfashioned, novel, now, parallel, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, progressive, red-hot, related, running, simultaneous, streamlined, stylish, synchronal, synchronic, synchronous, that be, that is, tie, topical, trendy, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, unison, unisonous, up, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, way out
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