"contemporary" in the noun sense
1. contemporary, coeval
a person of nearly the same age as another
"contemporary" in the adjective sense
1. contemporary, modern-day
characteristic of the present
"contemporary trends in design"
"the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
2. contemporary, present-day
belonging to the present time
"contemporary leaders"
3. contemporaneous, contemporary
occurring in the same period of time
"a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"
"the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart"
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