contemporaries

People sharing one's time

Contemporaries are people living or active during the same period.

The term often emphasizes shared historical moment: Shakespeare and his contemporaries, She was more radical than her contemporaries.

It can also mean people of roughly the same age: He seemed older than his contemporaries at school.

The singular contemporary doubles as an adjective meaning modern or current.

peers

colleagues

Professional associates

cohortGroup sharing circumstances
classmatesStudents in same course
age-matesThose equally old

fellows · counterparts · comrades · associates · companions · batchmates · coequals · rivals · competitors · collaborators

era

generation

Age-defined peer group

epochDistinct historical period
ageDuration of existence
periodPunctuation ending sentences

time · decade · century · moment · zeitgeist · climate · milieu · scene · movement · wave

modern

current

Directed flow of charge

present-dayOf this era
livingCurrently having breath
existingBeing real now

ongoing · recent · today's · now · coexisting · simultaneous · concurrent · synchronous · parallel · coincident

Categories

social tiesfriends, pals, buddies, mates, companions
social connectionsneighbors, peers, childhood friends, coworkers, friends
Georgian BritainGeorge III, Walpole, Culloden, Georgian era, Regency period
Shakespeare's WorldChristopher Marlowe, Globe Theatre, Elizabethan era, playwright, dramatist
generationsbaby boomers, millennials, Gen Z, Gen X, baby boomer
partnerspartners, partner, business partners, business partner, associates

Opposites

temporal relation

contemporariesancestors

Those from whom one descends

descendants · predecessors · successors · forebears · progeny

generational position

contemporarieselders

Senior community members

forefathers · grandparents · offspring · grandchildren · parents

Family

contemporary, coeval, contemporaneous, contemporaneously

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