contemporary

noun

Someone or something belonging to the same time period (as someone or something else)

Something existing at the same time.

(dated) A rival newspaper or magazine.

adjective

Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’).

From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous.

Roots

tempustempor- · Latin · time

Synonyms for contemporary

contemporaneousadj coevaln modernadj modernisticadj coetaneousadj ultramodernadj trendyadj fashionableadj modishadj stylishadj

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