contemporaries
- 1Plural of contemporary.
The painter earned more respect from later critics than from her contemporaries.
Among his political contemporaries, few matched his talent for compromise.
Note
A relational plural: contemporaries always belong to someone, so the word usually takes a possessive or an of-phrase, as in her contemporaries or the contemporaries of a poet. It can name things as well as people. In a dated usage, a newspaper called its rival papers its contemporaries. Unlike the adjective's "modern" sense, contemporaries share a time with each other, not necessarily with us.
contemporaries is a form of contemporary
contemporary, noun: A person or thing living or existing during the same period as another; also, a person of roughly the same age as someone else. Full entry
- Forms
- contemporarycontemporaries plural
- Spelling
- contemporary → contemporaries: change y to i, add -es
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