(contemporaries)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Contemporary things are modern and relate to the present time.
She writes a lot of ~ music for people like Whitney Houston...
Only the names are ancient; the characters are modern and ~.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
2.
Contemporary people or things were alive or happened at the same time as something else you are talking about.
...drawing upon official records and the reports of ~ witnesses.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
3.
Someone’s ~ is a person who is or was alive at the same time as them.
Like most of my contemporaries, I grew up in a vastly different world.
N-COUNT: usu pl, poss N