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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Contemporary \Con*tem"po*ra*ry\, n.; pl {Contemporaries}. One who lives at the same time with another; as Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: contemporary adj 1: characteristic of the present; "contemporary (or modern) trends in design" 2: belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders" [syn: {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}] n : a person of nearly the same age as another [syn: {coeval}]
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