1. (noun)contemporary, coeval a person of nearly the same age as another
2. (adj)contemporary, modern-day characteristic of the present "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
3. (adj)contemporary, present-day(a) belonging to the presenttime "contemporary leaders"
4. (adj)contemporaneous, contemporary occurring in the sameperiod of time "a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart"