CONTEMPORARY

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

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. Strype.

2.
a.

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

3.
n.

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