contemporary
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /kənˈtɛm.pəˌɹɛɹ.i/
help - (British) IPA: /kənˈtɛm.p(ə).ɹəɹ.i/, /kənˈtɛm.p(ə).ɹi/
contemporary
- From the same time period, coexistent in time.
- A grove born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees.
- This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe.
- Modern, of the present age.
- (from the same time period) contemporaneous; see also Thesaurus:contemporary
- (modern) current; see also Thesaurus:present
- (from the same time period) anachronistic: in the wrong time period
- (modern) archaic, coming
- French: contemporain
- German: zeitgenössisch
- Italian: contemporaneo, coetaneo, coevo
- Portuguese: contemporâneo
- Russian: совреме́нный
- Spanish: contemporario, contemporáneo
- French: contemporain
- German: zeitgenössisch, modern
- Italian: contemporaneo
- Portuguese: contemporâneo, moderno
- Russian: совреме́нный
- Spanish: contemporáneo, contemporario
contemporary (plural contemporaries)
- Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.
- Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.
- The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries.
- Something existing at the same time.
- (dated) A rival newspaper or magazine.
- 1900, The Speaker, the Liberal Review (volume 2, page 621)
- Annexation therefore was inevitable; but (as I have said above) it was not necessarily of prime importance in our national policy, and there has been no need to exaggerate—as I fear many of our contemporaries have exaggerated— […]
- 1900, The Speaker, the Liberal Review (volume 2, page 621)
- (dated) A rival newspaper or magazine.
- French: contemporain
- German: Zeitgenosse, Zeitgenossin
- Italian: contemporaneo
- Portuguese: contemporâneo
- Russian: совреме́нник
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