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Webster 1913 Edition

(k?-t?m′p?-r?-r?)

Adj.

Living or being at the same time; contemporary.

Noun.

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pl.

Cotemporaries

(-rĭz)

One who lives at the same time with another; a contemporary.

Adj.

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

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.]