contemporaries
Definition
- 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.
Noun
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all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
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