contemporaries

Thân thiện

The artist's contemporaries admired her innovative style.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • People living at the same time: "contemporaries" refers to all individuals who are alive during the same historical period.
   • People of approximately the same age: It also denotes a group of people who are roughly the same age, often sharing similar cultural or social experiences.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Shakespeare's contemporaries included playwrights like Christopher Marlowe.
  • She was more successful than most of her contemporaries in the art world.
  • The study compared the health outcomes of the patient with those of his contemporaries.

Advanced Usage

• "to be ahead of one's contemporaries": to be more advanced or innovative than other people of the same time.
  • Her scientific theories were so radical that she was far ahead of her contemporaries.
• "among one's contemporaries": within the group of people of the same age or era.
  • His work was highly respected among his contemporaries.

Variants and Related Words

• Contemporary (adjective): Belonging to or occurring in the present time.
  • contemporary art, contemporary literature
• Contemporary (noun): A person or thing living or existing at the same time as another. (This is the singular form of "contemporaries").
  • He was a contemporary of Mozart.
• Contemporaneity (noun): The state of being contemporary.

Synonyms

• Peers: People of the same age, status, or ability.
• Coevals: People of the same age or period (a more formal term).
• Generation: All the people born and living at about the same time.

Antonyms

• Ancestors: People from whom one is descended.
• Predecessors: People who held a position or office before the current holder.
• Descendants: People who are descended from a particular ancestor.

Related Phrases

• A man/woman of his/her time: A phrase describing someone whose views are typical of the period in which they lived, often used when discussing a person and their contemporaries.
  • While some of his views are controversial now, he was very much a man of his time and his contemporaries shared similar beliefs.

Học thuật

Noun

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• coevals
• generation