Contemporary vs. Counterpart — What's the Difference?

Living or occurring at the same time

A person or thing that corresponds to or has the same function as another person or thing in a different place or situation

Belonging to or occurring in the present

One of two copies of a legal document.

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

One that closely resembles another.

Belonging to the same period of time

One that has the same functions and characteristics as another; a corresponding person or thing

Of about the same age.

A duplicate of a legal document.

Current; modern

One of two parts that fit and complete each other.

One of the same time or age

One that serves as a complement.

A person of the present age.

Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.

From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous.

(legal) A duplicate of a legal document.

Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’).

One who or that which resembles another. en

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

One who or that which has corresponding functions or characteristics.

Something existing at the same time.

(palaeontology) Either half of a flattened fossil when the rock has split along the plane of the fossil.

(dated) A rival newspaper or magazine.

(transitive) To counterbalance. en

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

A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile.

Of the same age; coeval.

One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate.

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

A person who closely resembles another.

A person of nearly the same age as another.

A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another thing, or which supplements it; that which serves to complete or complement anything; hence, a person or thing having qualities lacking in another; an opposite.

A person of nearly the same age as another

A person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another

Characteristic of the present;

A duplicate copy

Belonging to the present time;

Occurring in the same period of time;