Synonyms for contemporaries
con·tem·po·raries

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. coevals, contemporaries, generationnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   generation, coevals, genesis, multiplication, propagation

Matched Categories

1. • People

How to pronounce contemporaries?

How to say contemporaries in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use contemporaries in a sentence?

1. Archimedes:

   Either of my contemporaries or of my successors, will, by means of the method when once established, be able to discover other theorems in addition, which have not yet occurred to me.

2. Jennifer Sclafani:

   President Trump tends to talk in personally evaluative terms - both positively and negatively - about his contemporaries. During his campaign, he was better known for his personal insults, but he is also a very complimentary president, hIs compliments, however, tend to be less substantial in terms of touting the complimentee's professional credentials or abilities, and are rather generally evaluative.

3. Oscar Wilde:

   Why was I born with such contemporaries

4. Goethe:

   The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

5. Francis M. Faber Jr.:

   Famous shipbuilders such as Donald Mackay referred to a certain part of his ships as having a 'forepeak'. Has anyone discovered any of his contemporaries as seeking to exceed his prowess by incorporating five, six or more 'peaks' in their ship design?