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adjective

Contemporary adj.

Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. "This king (Henry VIII.) was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe."

Of the same age; coeval. "A grove born with himself he sees, And loves his old contemporary trees."

noun

Contemporary n. (pl. contemporaries)

One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.

A person of nearly the same age as another.

Synonyms: coeval.

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... Pepys, a contemporary of Locke, in his incomparable and delicious Diary, remarks: "Home to my poor wife, who works all day like a horse, at the making of her hanging for our chamber and bed," thus telling us that he was following the fashion ...

— Quilts - Their Story and How to Make Them • Marie D. Webster

... when he considered that destiny to be the elevation of man above all good merely human, and by means far beyond the compass of his natural powers? Still, this was undoubtedly a conclusion of his riper years, a result arrived at after a certain intense if not very prolonged experience in contemporary Utopias, in futile endeavors to raise man above his own level while remaining on it, whether by socialistic schemes ...

— Life of Father Hecker • Walter Elliott

... meanwhile began to improve, and he actually developed business capacities, and soon the greatest writers of the time were contributing to the monthly review Sovremenik (the Contemporary) which Nekrassov bought in 1847. Turgenieff, Herzen, Byelinsky, Dostoyevsky gladly sent their works to him, and Nekrassov soon became the intellectual leader of his time. His influence became enormous, but he had to cope with all the rigours of the ...

— Who Can Be Happy And Free In Russia? • Nicholas Nekrassov

... and attendance are arround him. The leaguer, the landscape, the groups, the fighting all with the greatest thruth, there is nothing that does not contribute to embellish this very remarcable picture, painted by a contemporary of the evenement and famous artist in battle pieces, ...

— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

... cracked Pre-Raphaelite English fellow, and have only come to me to make the point of view complete," he thought. He was well acquainted with the way dilettanti have (the cleverer they were the worse he found them) of looking at the works of contemporary artists with the sole object of being in a position to say that art is a thing of the past, and that the more one sees of the new men the more one sees how inimitable the works of the great old masters have remained. He expected all ...

— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy

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