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CONTEMPORARIES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
All the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
Synonyms:
coevals; contemporaries; generation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("contemporaries" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "contemporaries"):
youth culture (young adults (a generational unit) considered as a cultural class or subculture)
peer group (contemporaries of the same status)
