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.
Derivatives:
contemporarily adv. contemporariness n. contemporarize v.tr. (also -ise).
Etymology: med.L contemporarius (as contemporaneous)