Contemporary | Mean of contemporary in English Dictionary

/kənˈtɛmpəreri/

• happening or beginning now or in recent times
1. contemporary [=modern] jazz/poetry/art/furniture
2. The story is old, but it has importance to contemporary [=current] audiences.
• existing or happening in the same time period
1. The book is based on contemporary accounts of the war. [=accounts of the war that were written when the war was happening]
• Noun
• a person who lives at the same time or is about the same age as another person
1. He was a contemporary of George Washington.
2. She is politically very different from most of her contemporaries.