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Webster 1913 Edition


Cotemporary

Co-tem′po-ra-ry

(k?-t?m′p?-r?-r?)
,
Adj.
Living or being at the same time; contemporary.

Co-tem′po-ra-ry

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Cotemporaries
(-rĭz)
.
One who lives at the same time with another; a contemporary.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cotemporary

COTEMPORARY

,
Adj.
[L., time.] Living or being at the same time; as cotemporary authors. Josephus was cotemporary with Vespasian.

COTEMPORARY

,
Adj.
[L., time.] One who lives at the same time with another. [I consider this word as preferable to contemporary, as being more easily pronounced.]

Definition 2024


cotemporary

cotemporary

English

Adjective

cotemporary (comparative more cotemporary, superlative most cotemporary)

  1. Living or being at the same time.

Noun

cotemporary (plural cotemporaries)

  1. One who lives at the same time with another.

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