[ kən'tɛmp(ə)r(ər)i ]
■ adjective
1》 living, occurring, or originating at the same time.
2》 belonging to or occurring in the present.
↘modern in style or design.
■ noun ( plural contemporaries ) a person or thing existing at the same time as another.
↘a person of roughly the same age as another.
Derivatives
contemporarily adverb
contemporariness noun
Origin
C17: from med. L. contemporarius , from con- 'together with' + tempus , tempor- 'time' (on the pattern of L. contemporaneus and late L. contemporalis ).