contemporaries

Questions about contemporaries

What does contemporaries mean?

contemporaries means "all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age".

How many syllables are in contemporaries?

contemporaries has 5 syllables: con-tem-po-rar-ies. The stress falls on "tem". In IPA it is /kənˈtɛmpɚˌɛɹiz/.

What is another word for contemporaries?

Close synonyms include coevals, generation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is contemporaries a common word?

contemporaries is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with contemporaries?

1 word rhymes with contemporaries. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.