What does contemporary mean?

Definitions for contemporary
kənˈtɛm pəˌrɛr icon·tem·po·ra·ry

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word contemporary.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. contemporary, coevaladjective

    a person of nearly the same age as another

  2. contemporary, modern-dayadjective

    characteristic of the present

    "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"

  3. contemporary, present-day(a)adjective

    belonging to the present time

    "contemporary leaders"

  4. contemporaneous, contemporaryadjective

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. contemporarynoun

    Someone living at the same time.

    Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare

  2. contemporarynoun

    Any creature living at the same time.

    The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries

  3. contemporarynoun

    Something existing at the same time.

    Often contemporary customs differ as if dating from different ages, whether they do or not

  4. contemporaryadjective

    From the same time period, coexistent in time.

  5. contemporaryadjective

    Modern, of the present age.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. CONTEMPORARYadjective

    Etymology: contemporain, French.

    Albert Durer was contemporary to Lucas. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.

    A grove born with himself he sees,
    And loves his old contemporary trees. Abraham Cowley.

    It is impossible to make the ideas of yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow, to be the same; or bring ages past and future together, and make them contemporary. John Locke.

  2. Contemporarynoun

    One who lives at the same time with another.

    All this in blooming youth you have atchiev’d;
    Nor are your soil’d contemporaries griev’d. Dryden.

    As he has been favourable to me, he will hear of his kindness from our contemporaries; for we are fallen into an age illiterate, censorious, and detracting. John Dryden, Juv. Preface.

    The active part of mankind, as they do most for the good of their contemporaries, very deservedly gain the greatest share in their applauses. Joseph Addison, Freeholder, №. 40.

Wikipedia

  1. contemporary

    Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. Contemporary history is either a subset of the late modern period, or it is one of the three major subsets of modern history, alongside the early modern period and the late modern period. In the social sciences, contemporary history is also continuous with, and related to, the rise of postmodernity. Contemporary history is politically dominated by the Cold War (1947–1991) between the Western Bloc, led by the United States, and the Eastern Bloc, led by the Soviet Union. The confrontation spurred fears of a nuclear war. An all-out "hot" war was avoided, but both sides intervened in the internal politics of smaller nations in their bid for global influence and via proxy wars. The Cold War ultimately ended with the Revolutions of 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The latter stages and aftermath of the Cold War enabled the democratization of much of Europe, Africa, and Latin America. In the Middle East, the period after 1945 was dominated by decolonization, the conflict involving the new state of Israel, the rise of petroleum politics, the decline of Arab nationalism, and the growth of Islamism. The first supranational organizations of government, such as the United Nations and European Union, emerged during the period after 1945, while the European colonial empires in Africa and Asia had mostly ended by 1975. Countercultures rose and the sexual revolution transformed social relations in western countries between the 1960s and 1980s, as seen in the protests of 1968. Living standards rose sharply across the developed world because of the post-war economic boom. Japan and West Germany both emerged as exceptionally strong economies. The culture of the United States spread widely, with American television and movies spreading across the world. Some Western countries began a slow process of deindustrializing in the 1970s; globalization led to the emergence of new financial and industrial centers in Asia. The Japanese economic miracle was later followed by the Four Asian Tigers of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan; and later China after its economic reform, which then exported its consumer and technological goods around the world. Science made new advances after 1945: spaceflight, nuclear technology, lasers, semiconductors, molecular biology, genetics, particle physics, and the Standard Model of quantum field theory. The first commercial computers were created, followed by the Internet, beginning the Information Age.

ChatGPT

  1. contemporary

    Contemporary refers to something existing, occurring, or living at the same time or belonging to the same time period. It is often used to describe current, modern or recent times and trends. The term can also describe people, objects, ideas, styles, etc., that exist together in the same time period.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Contemporaryadjective

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

  2. Contemporaryadjective

    of the same age; coeval

  3. Contemporarynoun

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

  4. Etymology: [Pref. con- + L. temporarius of belonging to time, tempus time. See Temporal, and cf. Contemporaneous.]

Wikidata

  1. Contemporary

    Contemporary was a monthly visual arts magazine based in London. Founded and edited as The Green Book by Keith Spencer as a quarterly publication, it re-emerged under the title Contemporary Art in 1993. On the death of Spencer, the title was acquired by Gordon and Breach Publishing, and produced four issues under the editorship of Lynne Green, Spencer's deputy. The magazine finally found its feet as a committed contemporary art publication in 1996 under the editorial control of Keith Patrick and with the change of title to Contemporary Visual Arts, later abbreviated to CVA. During this period the magazine achieved sales of nearly 20,000, including 5,000 subscribers, with distribution mainly in the UK, Europe, the States and Australia. Its base at this time was the former Peek Freans biscuit factory in Bermondsey, London, the site of several key early exhibitions of the YBA generation. With the collapse of the G+B parent company in 2001, the title was acquired by Art 21 and reappeared as Contemporary in January 2002 although no longer with an exclusive commitment to the visual arts. In 2003 a sister publication, Contemporary 21, was launched. Initially media-focused, with special issues dedicated to painting, sculpture, video art and performance, it would later embrace a wider range of topics, from art collecting to the relationship between visual art and architecture. In 2006 Contemporary published its first Annual, featuring 50 emerging artists nominated by its network of world correspondents. In 2008 the magazine relocated to Panama City, where it ceased publication after failing in an attempt to start a Spanish-language edition.

Editors Contribution

  1. contemporary

    Relating to the current moment of time.

    Contemporary art is beautiful, stylish and elegant.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 22, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'contemporary' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2248

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'contemporary' in Nouns Frequency: #3015

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'contemporary' in Adjectives Frequency: #305

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

How to pronounce contemporary?

How to say contemporary in sign language?

Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of contemporary in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of contemporary in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of contemporary in a Sentence

  1. Artem Filatov , 27:

    It is double-sided. Of course, there is interest in our city from all around the world now. And for businesses, there are lots of new possibilities to earn money, but not everyone is happy ... I really hope the foreigners don't just come for the football, but see other things in the city: the museums, the contemporary art center.

  2. George Bernard Shaw:

    What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

  3. Armando Iannucci:

    It felt very modern, it also speaks of these sort of contemporary issues and I just want to get that life and that humour and approach it maybe as if there were no rules as to how you make a costume drama.

  4. Anoek Steketee:

    We came to the conclusion that we needed to provide a context, use the audio of the soap and find a form to tell a layered, nuanced story of the relation between the fictional story of the radio soap and the daily reality of contemporary Rwanda, a Web documentary was for us the ultimate way to tell this story.

  5. Janine Parry:

    Her approach suggests she understands the contemporary electorate in Arkansas and everywhere.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

contemporary#1#2871#10000

Translations for contemporary

From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

Get even more translations for contemporary »

Translation

Find a translation for the contemporary definition in other languages:

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Word of the Day

Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?

Please enter your email address:


Citation

Use the citation below to add this definition to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"contemporary." Definitions.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 9 Oct. 2024. <https://www.definitions.net/definition/contemporary>.

Discuss these contemporary definitions with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good definition for contemporary? Don't keep it to yourself...

    Image or illustration of

    contemporary

    Credit »

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Quiz

    Are you a words master?

    »
    an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
    A proprietary
    B incumbent
    C unsealed
    D adscripted

    Nearby & related entries:

    Alternative searches for contemporary: