Contemporaneous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Contemporaneous \Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous\, a. [L. contemporaneus;
     con- + tempus time. See {Temporal}, and cf.
     {Contemporaneous}.]
     Living, existing, or occurring at the same time;
     contemporary.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           The great age of Jewish philosophy, that of Aben Esra,
           Maimonides, and Kimchi, had been contemporaneous with
           the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy. --Milman
     -- {Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  contemporaneous
       adj 1: 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: {contemporary}]
       2: of the same period [syn: {coetaneous}, {coeval}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "contemporaneous":
     accompanying, actual, agreeing, as is, being, coetaneous,
     coeternal, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coinstantaneous,
     collateral, concomitant, concurrent, contemporary, conterminous,
     coterminous, current, existent, existing, extant, fresh, immanent,
     immediate, instant, isochronal, isochronous, latest, modern, new,
     present, present-age, present-day, present-time, running,
     simultaneous, synchronal, synchronic, synchronous, that be,
     that is, topical, unison, unisonous, up-to-date,
     up-to-the-minute