a. | 1. | Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. |
2. | Of the same age; coeval. | |
n. | 1. | One who lives at the same time with another; |
2. | a person of nearly the same age as another. |
Noun | 1. | 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 |