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Con`tem´po`ra`ry
a.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.
n.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.
Noun1.contemporary - a person of nearly the same age as another
Synonyms: coeval
Adj.1.contemporary - characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
Synonyms: modern-day
2.contemporary - belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders"
Synonyms: present-day
3.contemporary - 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"
Synonyms: contemporaneous
a la mode, abreast, accompanying, actual, advanced, agreeing, as is, associated, attendant, attending, au courant, avant-garde, being, coetaneous, coeternal, coeval, coexistent, coincident, coincidental, coinstantaneous, collateral, concomitant, concurrent, connected, conterminous, coterminous, current, dead heat, draw, existent, existing, extant, far out, forward-looking, fresh, immanent, immediate, in, instant, isochronal, isochronous, latest, linked, mod, modernistic, modernized, modish, new, newfangled, newfashioned, novel, now, parallel, present-age, present-day, present-time, progressive, red-hot, related, running, 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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