contemporary

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[edit] English

[edit] Adjective

contemporary (comparative more contemporary, superlative most contemporary)

Positive
contemporary

Comparative
more contemporary

Superlative
most contemporary

  1. From the same time period, coexistent in time.
  2. Modern, of the present age.

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[edit] Noun

Singular
contemporary

Plural
contemporaries

contemporary (plural contemporaries)

  1. Someone living (by extension something existing) at the same time.
    Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare
    The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries

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