Adjective: contemporary kun'tem-pu,re-ree [N. Amer], kun'tem-pu-(ru-)ree [Brit]
- Characteristic of the present
"contemporary trends in design";
- modern-day
- Belonging to the present time
"contemporary leaders";
- present-day
- Occurring in the same period of time
"the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart";
- contemporaneous
- A person of nearly the same age as another
"Shakespeare and Cervantes were contemporaries, though they lived in different countries";
- coeval
Derived forms: contemporaries
See also: current, modern, synchronal [archaic], synchronic, synchronous
Type of: compeer, equal, match, peer
Encyclopedia: Contemporary