contemporary
Meanings
Plural: contemporaries
Noun
- a person of nearly the same age as another
- Someone or something belonging to the same time period (as someone or something else)
- Something existing at the same time.
- Something existing at the same time.
- A rival newspaper or magazine.
Adjective Satellite
- characteristic of the present
- "contemporary trends in design"
- belonging to the present time
- "contemporary leaders"
- occurring in the same period of time
- "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart"
Adj
- From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous.
- Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’).
Origin / Etymology
From Medieval Latin contemporārius, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + temporārius, an adjective derived from tempus (“time”).
Synonyms
coetaneous, coeval, contemporaneous, contemporary, cotemporal, cotemporaneous, current, hodiern, modern, modern-day, present, present-day
Antonyms
anachronistic, archaic, coming, noncontemporary, uncontemporary
Scrabble Score: 21
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