Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun contemporaries
1 sense of contemporaries
Sense 1
coevals, contemporaries, generation -- (all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age)
=> people -- ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun contemporary
1 sense of contemporary
Sense 1
contemporary, coeval -- (a person of nearly the same age as another)
=> peer, equal, match, compeer -- (a person who is of equal standing with another in a group)