adj. & n.
adj. 1 living or occurring at the same time. 2 approximately equal in age. 3 following modern ideas or fashion in style or design.
n. (pl. -ies) 1 a person or thing living or existing at the same time as another. 2 a person of roughly the same age as another. contemporarily adv. contemporariness n. contemporarize v.tr. (also -ise).
[ med.L contemporarius (as contemporaneous) ]