contemporary

Universal Words adjective, noun adjective 1 ~ (with sb/sth) belonging to the same time: We have no contemporary account of the battle (= written near the time that it happened). * He was contemporary with the dramatist Congreve. 2 belonging to the present time SYNMODERN: life in contemporary Britain * contemporary fiction / music / dance noun (plural contemporaries) a person who lives or lived at the same time as sb else, especially sb who is about the same age: She and I were contemporaries at college. * He was a contemporary of Freud and may have known him. * Give or take a few years, they are contemporaries.