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.
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Is contemporary a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, contemporary is tagged as adjective.
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