The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cotemporary \Co*tem"po*ra*ry\ (k?-t?m"p?-r?-r?), a. Living or being at the same time; contemporary.
Cotemporary \Co*tem"po*ra*ry\, n.; pl. Cotemporaries (-r[i^]z). One who lives at the same time with another; a contemporary.
Wiktionary
a. Living or being at the same time. n. One who lives at the same time with another.
Usage examples of "cotemporary".
If ever any one, possessed of power, had grounds for thinking himself the best and most enlightened among his cotemporaries, it was the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Their Platonising successors indeed, in after times, in order to legitimate the corruptions which they had incorporated into the doctrines of Jesus, found it necessary to disavow the primitive Christians, who had taken their principles from the mouth of Jesus himself, of his Apostles, and the Fathers cotemporary with them.
Strip it of these embarrassments, vest it in the Roman type which we have adopted instead of our English black letter, reform its uncouth orthography, and assimilate its pronunciation, as much as may be, to the present English, just as we do in reading Piers Plowman or Chaucer, and with the cotemporary vocabulary for the few lost words, we understand it as we do them.
The merit of her compositions must have been indisputable, to have left all cotemporary female writers in obscurity.
Once, while editor of the Union, he had disposed of a labored, incoherent, two-column attack made upon him by a cotemporary, with a single line, which, at first glance, seemed to contain a solemn and tremendous compliment--viz.