Contemporary vs. Historical

Contemporaryadjective

From the same time period, coexistent in time.

Contemporaryadjective

Modern, of the present age.

Contemporarynoun

Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.

Contemporarynoun

Something existing at the same time.

Contemporarynoun

(dated) A rival newspaper or magazine.

Contemporaryadjective

Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.

Contemporaryadjective

Of the same age; coeval.

Contemporarynoun

One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.

Contemporarynoun

a person of nearly the same age as another.

Contemporarynoun

a person of nearly the same age as another

Contemporaryadjective

characteristic of the present;

Contemporaryadjective

belonging to the present time;

Contemporaryadjective

occurring in the same period of time;

Contemporaryadjective

living or occurring at the same time

Contemporaryadjective

dating from the same time

Contemporaryadjective

belonging to or occurring in the present

Contemporaryadjective

following modern ideas in style or design

Contemporarynoun

a person or thing living or existing at the same time as another

Contemporarynoun

a person of roughly the same age as another

Historicaladjective

Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.

Historicaladjective

About history; depicting persons or events from history.

Historicaladjective

Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.

Historicaladjective

Set in the past.

Historicaladjective

(uncommon) Former, erstwhile; lapsed, nominal.

Historicaladjective

(grammar) One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).

Historicaladjective

synonym of hereditaryor evolutionary.

Historicaladjective

Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.

Historicaladjective

Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.

Historicaladjective

(uncommon) lang=en: important or likely to be important to history and historians.

Historicaladjective

Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically":

Historicalnoun

A historical romance.

Historicaladjective

of or relating to the study of history;

Historicaladjective

having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary;

Historicaladjective

belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past;

Historicaladjective

used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time;

Historicaladjective

of or concerning history or past events

Historicaladjective

belonging to the past

Historicaladjective

(especially of a novel or film) set in the past.

Historicaladjective

(of the study of a subject) based on an analysis of its development over a period