contemporary

contemporary
    adj 1: characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in
           design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
           [syn: {contemporary}, {modern-day}]
    2: belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders" [syn:
       {contemporary}, {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}, {contemporary}]
    n 1: a person of nearly the same age as another [syn:
         {contemporary}, {coeval}]
    

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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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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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