1. Adjective
Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
2. Adjective
Of the same age; coeval.
3. Noun
One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.
4. Adjective
belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders"
Vocabulary classified under History
5. Adjective
characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
Vocabulary classified under History
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