contemporary

1. 1.

   a person of nearly the same age as another

   Synonymscoeval

   Broaderpeer

Other forms of contemporary

plural

contemporaries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about contemporary

What does contemporary mean?

contemporary means "characteristic of the present". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in contemporary?

contemporary has 5 syllables: con-tem-po-rar-y. The stress falls on "tem". In IPA it is /kənˈtɛmpɚˌɛɹi/.

What is another word for contemporary?

Close synonyms include modern-day, present-day, contemporaneous, coeval. 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 contemporary a common word?

contemporary is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 contemporary?

21 words rhyme with contemporary. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.