The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Contemporary \Con*tem"po*ra*ry\, a. [Pref. con- + L. temporarius
   of belonging to time, tempus time. See Temporal, and cf.
   Contemporaneous.]
   1. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in,
      or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
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            This king [Henry VIII.] was contemporary with the
            greatest monarchs of Europe.          --Strype.
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   2. Of the same age; coeval.
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            A grove born with himself he sees,
            And loves his old contemporary trees. --Cowley.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Contemporary \Con*tem"po*ra*ry\, n.; pl. Contemporaries.
   1. One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch
      and Chaucer were contemporaries.
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   2. a person of nearly the same age as another.

   Syn: coeval.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

contemporary
    adj 1: characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in
           design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
           [syn: contemporary, modern-day]
    2: belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders" [syn:
       contemporary, present-day(a)]
    3: occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest
       rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in
       inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with
       Mozart" [syn: contemporaneous, contemporary]
    n 1: a person of nearly the same age as another [syn:
         contemporary, coeval]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

86 Moby Thesaurus words for "contemporary":
   a la mode, abreast, accompanying, actual, advanced, agreeing,
   as is, associated, attendant, attending, au courant, avant-garde,
   being, coetaneous, coeternal, coeval, coexistent, coexisting,
   coincident, coincidental, coinstantaneous, collateral, concomitant,
   concurrent, connected, contemporaneous, conterminous, coterminous,
   current, dead heat, draw, existent, existing, extant, far out,
   fashionable, forward-looking, fresh, immanent, immediate, in,
   instant, isochronal, isochronous, latest, linked, mod, modern,
   modernistic, modernized, modish, new, newfangled, newfashioned,
   novel, now, parallel, present, present-age, present-day,
   present-time, progressive, red-hot, related, running, simultaneous,
   streamlined, stylish, synchronal, synchronic, synchronous, that be,
   that is, tie, topical, trendy, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra,
   ultramodern, unison, unisonous, up, up-to-date, up-to-datish,
   up-to-the-minute, way out