contemporary

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
contemporary /kənˈtɛmp(ə)r(ər)i/

▶adjective

• 1 living, occurring, or originating at the same time.

• 2 belonging to or occurring in the present.

  ■ modern in style or design.

▶noun (pl. contemporaries) a person or thing existing at the same time as another.

■ a person of roughly the same age as another.

– derivatives
contemporarily adverb,
contemporariness noun.

– origin C17: from med. L. contemporarius, from con- ‘together with’ + tempus, tempor- ‘time’ (on the pattern of L. contemporaneus and late L. contemporalis).