- contemporaries
- contemporaries contemporaries n.
all the people living at the same time or of approximately
the same age.
Syn: coevals, generation. [WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
contemporaries
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Contemporaries — Contemporary Con*tem po*ra*ry, n.; pl. {Contemporaries}. 1. One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries. [1913 Webster] 2. a person of nearly the same age as another. Syn: coeval. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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