Contemporary

4 definitions found

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

  Contemporary \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.
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              This king [Henry VIII.] was contemporary with the
              greatest monarchs of Europe.          --Strype.
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     2. Of the same age; coeval.
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              A grove born with himself he sees,
              And loves his old contemporary trees. --Cowley.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Contemporary \Con*tem"po*ra*ry\, n.; pl. {Contemporaries}.
     1. One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch
        and Chaucer were contemporaries.
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     2. a person of nearly the same age as another.
  
     Syn: coeval.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  contemporary
       adj 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}]
       n : 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