contemporaries

Definitions

Persons or things living or existing at the same time.

People belonging to the same period or age.

Examples

Unlike many of his contemporaries, the artist refused to follow the popular trends of the era.

The historian analyzed the letters written by the author to his literary contemporaries.

Synonyms

peers equals coevals associates colleagues counterparts compeers

Antonyms

predecessors successors ancestors descendants forerunners antecedents