Definitions For Contemporary

noun

  • A person of nearly the same age as another
  • All the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

adjective

  • Belonging to the present time
  • Characteristic of the present
  • Occurring in the same period of time

verb

  • A person who lives at the same time or is about the same age as another person

Is Contemporaries a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK NO
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global NO
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
20
Words with Friends
24

The word Contemporary is worth 20 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Contemporary in a Sentence

  • The absurd notion that early cave dwellers were contemporary with the dinosaurs
  • A magazine devoted to contemporary fashions
  • He was a contemporary of George Washington.
  • She is politically very different from most of her contemporaries.

Synonyms for Contemporary

Antonyms for Contemporaries

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