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"Contemporary" Definition

noun

A person of the present age.
One of the same time or age: Shelley and Keats were contemporaries.
One that is contemporary with another.
One of the same or nearly the same age as another.

adjective

Belonging to the same period of time: a fact documented by two contemporary sources.
Current; modern: contemporary trends in design.
Of about the same age.
Happening, existing, living, or coming into being during the same period of time.
Marked by characteristics of the present period .

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