contemporaries

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contemporaries - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  contemporaries \contemporaries\ n.
     all the people living at the same time or of approximately
     the same age.
  
     Syn: coevals, generation.
          [WordNet 1.5]

  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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. a person of nearly the same age as another.
  
     Syn: coeval.
          [WordNet 1.5]

contemporaries - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  contemporaries
      n 1: all the people living at the same time or of approximately
           the same age [syn: coevals, contemporaries,
           generation]