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English Dictionary: contemporary	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for contemporary
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
contemporary adj characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine" Synonym(s): contemporary, modern-day belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders" Synonym(s): contemporary, present-day(a) 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" Synonym(s): contemporaneous, contemporary n a person of nearly the same age as another [syn: contemporary, coeval]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Contemporary \Contem"pora*ry\, n.; pl. {Contemporaries}. One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Contemporary \Contem"porary\, 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.