contemporaries
USkuhn-TEM-puh-rair-eez/kənˈtɛm.pəˌɹɛɹ.iz/UKkuhn-TEM-puh-ruh-reez/kənˈtɛm.p(ə).ɹəɹ.iz/
- 1Plural of contemporary. Use this form when talking about more than one person from the same time or age group.
Mozart and his contemporaries changed the way people wrote music.
She often felt different from her contemporaries at school.
Note
contemporaries is a form of contemporary
contemporary, noun: A person or thing from the same time as another, or a person about the same age as you. Full entry
- Forms
- contemporarycontemporaries plural
- Spelling
- contemporary → contemporaries: change y to i, add -es
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