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Noun: contemporaries  kun'tem-pu,re-reez [N. Amer], kun'tem-pu-(ru-)reez [Brit]
  1. All the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
    "The artist and the composer were contemporaries in 19th century Vienna";
    - coevals, generation
Noun: contemporary  kun'tem-pu,re-ree [N. Amer], kun'tem-pu-(ru-)ree [Brit]
  1. A person of nearly the same age as another
    "Shakespeare and Cervantes were contemporaries, though they lived in different countries";
    - coeval

Type of: compeer, equal, match, peer, people

Encyclopedia: Contemporary