cotemporary
cotemporary is the alternative form of contemporary.
Meaning of contemporary
Adjective
contemporary (comparative more contemporary, superlative most contemporary)
- From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous.
- A neighb'ring Wood born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees.a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, Claudian's Old Man of Verona^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_(Cowley)/The_Dangers_of_an_Honest_Man_in_much_Company#Section23)
- Synonyms:
- coetaneous, coeval, contemporaneous
- Antonyms:
- anachronistic
- Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’).
- We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.2012 January, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012, page 23
- Synonyms:
- current, modern, hodiern, de nos jours, present, present-day
Forms of cotemporary
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more cotemporary |
| superlative | most cotemporary |
| Noun | |
| plural | cotemporaries |
Origin of cotemporary
From co- + temporary.
Questions about cotemporary
- What is cotemporary the alternative form of?
- Cotemporary is the alternative form of contemporary.
Words near cotemporary in the dictionary
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