What does "contemporary" mean?
Contemporary: Of the same age; coeval. A grove born with himself he sees, And loves his old contemporary trees. Cowley.
Additional senses
- 2.One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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