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contemporary

 
 
/kənˈtempərəri/, /kənˈtempəri/ noun [C]

Translation

Someone's contemporaries are the people who live at the same time as them.
çağdaşı, akran, aynı çağda yaşamış kişiler
Shakespeare and his contemporaries641
(Definition of contemporary noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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