Definition of Contemporaneous

1. Adjective. Occurring in the same period of time. "The composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart"

Exact synonyms: Contemporary
Similar to: Synchronal, Synchronic, Synchronous
Derivative terms: Contemporaneity, Contemporaneousness

2. Adjective. Of the same period.

Definition of Contemporaneous

1. a. Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary.

Definition of Contemporaneous

1. Adjective. Existing or created in the same period of time. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Contemporaneous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contemporaneous

contemplating
contemplation
contemplations
contemplatist
contemplatists
contemplatively
contemplativeness
contemplatives
contemplator
contemplators
contempo
contemporalities
contemporality
contemporaneity
contemporaneous
contemporaneously
contemporaneousness
contemporaries
contemporarily
contemporariness
contemporary
contemporary world
contemporisation
contemporisations
contemporise
contemporization
contemporizations
contemporize
contemporized

Literary usage of Contemporaneous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of the Law of Insurance by William Reynolds Vance (1904)
"Contemporaneous PAROL 'WAIVERS. 124. Evidence of circumstances attending the ... Therefore we conclude that a contemporaneous waiver of an executory ..."

2. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"In this interval erosion might not occur. might or It would not be unnatural to find contemporaneous erosion exhibited somewhere along the line of contact. ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank-notes and by John Barnard Byles, Maurice Barnard Byles, Walter John Barnard Byles (1899)
"Agreement contemporaneous but collateral. Promissory note accompanying a mortgage ... But a written agreement, though contemporaneous, will not restrain the ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"Contemporaneous character of the declarations.—Whether the declaration must be precisely contemporaneous with the transaction which it is presumed to ..."

5. A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon the Legislative by Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Victor Hugo Lane (1903)
"An important question which now suggests itself is this: How far the contemporaneous interpretation, or the subsequent practical construction of any ..."

6. Statutes and Statutory Construction: Including a Discussion of Legislative by Jabez Gridley Sutherland (1904)
"Contemporaneous construct ion.— The aid of contemporaneous construction is ... A contemporaneous construction is that which it receives soon after its ..."

7. The Ancient Life-history of the Earth: A Comprehensive Outline of the by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1897)
"The term " contemporaneous " is usually applied by geologists to groups of strata in different regions which contain the same fossils, or an assemblage of ..."

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