contemporary Definition

contemporary
adj

1. Belonging to the same period or time as something.

Thesaurus: concurrent, contemporaneous, simultaneous, coexistent, synchronous, coterminous, coeval.
Form: contemporary with something (often)
2. Around the same age as them.

Form: contemporary with someone (often)
3. Modern.

Thesaurus: modern, current, present, recent, à la mode, newfangled, up-to-date; Antonym: ancient, historical.

noun contemporaries

1. Someone who lives or lived at the same time as another.
2. Someone of about the same age as another.

Derivative: contemporarily
adverb

Etymology: 17c: from Latin contemporarius, from con- same + tempus time.