CONTEMPORARIES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contemporaries mean? 

• CONTEMPORARIES (noun)
  The noun CONTEMPORARIES has 1 sense:

1. all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

  Familiarity information: CONTEMPORARIES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTEMPORARIES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

All the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

coevals; contemporaries; generation

Hypernyms ("contemporaries" is a kind of...):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "contemporaries"):

youth culture (young adults (a generational unit) considered as a cultural class or subculture)

peer group (contemporaries of the same status)

 Context examples 

But my choice and constant companions should be a set of my own immortal brotherhood; among whom, I would elect a dozen from the most ancient, down to my own contemporaries.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Instead of lurking on the seafloor and ambushing prey, as many of its contemporaries did, Gladbachus may have been one of the first vertebrates to live in the water column — the space between the ocean's surface and bottom — where anchovies, sardines and herring make their home today.

(Ancient sharks likely more diverse than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

I have alluded to him, Reader, because I think I see in him an intellect profounder and more unique than his contemporaries have yet recognised; because I regard him as the first social regenerator of the day—as the very master of that working corps who would restore to rectitude the warped system of things; because I think no commentator on his writings has yet found the comparison that suits him, the terms which rightly characterise his talent.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)