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adjective

Contemporary adj.

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."

Of the same age; coeval. "A grove born with himself he sees, And loves his old contemporary trees."

noun

Contemporary n. (pl. contemporaries)

One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.

A person of nearly the same age as another.

Synonyms: coeval.

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Etymology of 'Contemporary'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... horribly ready to pounce upon one from the rear; was waiting in the doorway just in front; was crouching in each corner of the darkened chamber, and hidden in the chimney. That fat, foolish scullion slept in the same room with my brother and myself. He, as I find by reference to contemporary annals, was seven at this time, and I was five, and we got to know afterwards that the sprawling wench grew hungry in the night-time, and went downstairs to filch heels of loaves and cheese, or anything our rather spare household economy left open to her petty larcenies. And in order that these ...

— Recollections • David Christie Murray

... mind resulting from it, that socialism, regarded as a practical force, begins; and among the majority of socialists this theory is predominant still. In view, therefore, of the requirements of logic, of history, and of contemporary facts, our own examination must begin with the theory of ...

— A Critical Examination of Socialism • William Hurrell Mallock

... insatiable maw yawns as greedily for the ten-cent pieces of the people as for the thousands of the larger investor. It is as avid and relentless in devising ant-traps as elephant-snares. There fell into my hands recently certain valuable documents in the meanest of contemporary swindles, which reveal the connection of the National City Bank, certain of its officers and other important financial interests, with a plot to fleece the fag ends of the public. The details of the Munroe & Munroe-Montreal & Boston conspiracy have been widely published, and the world is well acquainted ...

— Frenzied Finance - Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated • Thomas W. Lawson

... neglected fields of humanity which he tilled for the Common Master, we judge him to be one of the chief and most serviceable figures of the Victorian age; and well deserving from his own followers the ecstasy of grief and veneration which is being manifested, and from contemporary notice the tribute of a hearty recognition of pious and noble objects zealously pursued, and love of God and of humanity made the passion and the purpose ...

— The Authoritative Life of General William Booth • George Scott Railton

... fabulous piece of criminality with his son's wife? So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history, when, on the one hand, those who afterwards write it find long periods of time intercepting their view, and, on the other hand, the contemporary records of any actions and lives, partly through envy and ill-will, partly through favor and ...

— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

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