Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Contemporary \Con*tem"po*ra*ry\, n.; pl. {Contemporaries}.
   One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and
   Chaucer were contemporaries.

Source : WordNet®

contemporaries
     n : all the people living at the same time or of approximately
         the same age [syn: {coevals}, {generation}]