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Contemporaneous definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONTEMPORANEOUS, a. [See Cotemporary.] living or being at the same time.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart" [syn: contemporaneous, contemporary]
2: of the same period [syn: coetaneous, coeval, contemporaneous]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin contemporaneus, from com- + tempor-, tempus time Date: circa 1656 existing, occurring, or originating during the same time Synonyms: see contemporary • contemporaneously adverb • contemporaneousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (usu. foll. by with) 1 existing or occurring at the same time. 2 of the same period. Derivatives: contemporaneity n. contemporaneously adv. contemporaneousness n. Etymology: L contemporaneus (as com-, temporaneus f. tempus -oris time)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Contemporaneous Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous, a. [L. contemporaneus; con- + tempus time. See Temporal, and cf. Contemporaneous.] Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary. The great age of Jewish philosophy, that of Aben Esra, Maimonides, and Kimchi, had been contemporaneous with the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy. --Milman -- Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If two events or situations are contemporaneous, they happen or exist during the same period of time. (FORMAL) ...the contemporaneous development of a separate and quite recognisable Scottish school of art. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Contemporary.

Moby Thesaurus

accompanying, actual, agreeing, as is, being, coetaneous, coeternal, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coinstantaneous, collateral, concomitant, concurrent, contemporary, conterminous, coterminous, current, existent, existing, extant, fresh, immanent, immediate, instant, isochronal, isochronous, latest, modern, new, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, running, simultaneous, synchronal, synchronic, synchronous, that be, that is, topical, unison, unisonous, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute