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