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Webster 1913 Edition

Contemporary

Con-tem′po-ra-ry

,
Adj.
[Pref.
con-
+ L.
temporarius
of belonging to time,
tempus
time. See
Temporal
, and cf.
Contemporaneous
.]
1.
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.
Strype.
2.
Of the same age; coeval.
A grove born with himself he sees,
And loves his old
contemporary
trees.
Cowley.

Con-tem′po-ra-ry

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Contemporaries
.
1.
One who lives at the same time with another;
as, Petrarch and Chaucer were
contemporaries
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Contemporary

CONTEMPORARY

,
Adj.
[L., time. For the sake of easier pronunciation and a ore agreeable sound, this word is often changed to cotemporary.] Coetaneous; living at the same time, applied to persons; being or existing at the same time, applied to things; as contemporary kings; contemporary events. [See Cotemporary, the preferable word.]

CONTEMPORARY

,
Noun.
One who lives at the same time with another.
Socrates and Plato were contemporaries.

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