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 Definitions of contemporary  [ənˈtɛm pəˌrɛr i]  

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Definition of 'contemporary' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) contemporary
existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same period of time.

2.  contemporary
of the present time; modern.

3.  contemporary
of about the same age or date:
a Georgian table with a contemporary wig stand.

4. (n.) contemporary
a person or thing belonging to the same time or period with another.

5.  contemporary
a person of the same age as another.

Etymology:  (1625–35; < ML contemporārius)

Definition of 'contemporary' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) contemporary, coeval
a person of nearly the same age as another

2. (adj) contemporary, modern-day
characteristic of the present
"contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"

3. (adj) contemporary, present-day(a)
belonging to the present time
"contemporary leaders"

4. (adj) contemporaneous, contemporary
occurring in the same period of time
"a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart"


Definition of 'contemporary' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (adjective) contemporary
modern or connected with the present
contemporary art/poetry/architecture

2.  contemporary
from the same time as sth else
paintings contemporary with Manet and Cezanne


Definition of 'contemporary' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) contemporary
living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous

2. (adj) contemporary
of the same age; coeval

3. (noun) contemporary
one who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries


Translation of 'contemporary' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: living at, happening at or belonging to the same period
That chair and the painting are contemporary; – they both date from the seventeenth century.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: kontemporêr, tydgenootlik Arabic flag Arabic: مُتَعاصِر Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: съвременен
Brazilian flag Brazilian: contemporâneo Czech flag Czech: ze stejného období German flag German: gleichaltrig
Danish flag Danish: samtidig Greek flag Greek: που ανήκει στην ίδια εποχ Spanish flag Spanish: contemporáneo
Estonian flag Estonian: kaasaegne Farsi flag Farsi: هم دوره؛ همزمان Finnish flag Finnish: aikalainen
French flag French: contemporain Hebrew flag Hebrew: בֶּן זְמַנֵנו Hindi flag Hindi: समकालीन
Croatian flag Croatian: suvreman, istodoban Hungarian flag Hungarian: egykorú Indonesian flag Indonesian: sejaman
Icelandic flag Icelandic: samtíða Italian flag Italian: contemporaneo Japanese flag Japanese: 同時代の
Korean flag Korean: 당대의 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: bendraamžis, to paties se Latvian flag Latvian: viena laika
Malay flag Malay: sezaman Dutch flag Dutch: uit dezelfde tijd Norwegian flag Norwegian: samtids-, samtidig, nåtid
Polish flag Polish: współczesny, z tego sameg Persian flag Persian: هم دوره؛ همزمان Pashto flag Pashto: معاصر، ديوه عصر خلك او پي
Portuguese flag Portuguese: contemporâneo Romanian flag Romanian: contemporan Russian flag Russian: одной эпохи
Slovak flag Slovak: súčasný Slovenian flag Slovenian: sodoben Serbian flag Serbian: istovremen
Swedish flag Swedish: samtida Thai flag Thai: ร่วมสมัย Turkish flag Turkish: çağdaş, modern
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 同時代的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: однієї епохи Urdu flag Urdu: هم عصر، معاصر
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: đương thời Chinese flag Chinese: 同时代的

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