adj. From the same time period, coexistent in time.
adj. Modern, of the present age.
n. Someone living at the same time.
n. Any creature living at the same time.
n. Something existing at the same time.
n. Someone of roughly the same age as another.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
adj. Of the same age; coeval.
n. One who lives at the same time with another.
n. a person of nearly the same age as another.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporaneous: said of persons, things, or events.
Specifically Living or existing at the same time with one's self.
Of the same age; coeval.
n. One living at the same time (with another).
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adj. characteristic of the present
n. a person of nearly the same age as another
adj. occurring in the same period of time
adj. belonging to the present time
Word Usage
"The term contemporary formation is here taken in the sense attached to it by geologists, in speaking of beds of quartz in clay-slate, granular limestone in mica-slate or feldspar in gneiss."