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contemporary

/kənˈtɛm.p(ə).ɹi/
noun
  1. Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.

    "Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare."

  2. Something existing at the same time.

adjective
  1. From the same time period, coexistent in time.

  2. Modern, of the present age.

Synonymscontemporaneous, current
Antonymsanachronistic, archaic, coming

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