Contemporary - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |kənˈtempərerɪ|  American pronunciation of the word contemporary
Brit.  |kənˈtemp(ə)r(ər)ɪ|  British pronunciation of the word contemporary

noun

- a person of nearly the same age as another (syn: coeval)

adjective

- characteristic of the present (syn: modern-day)
contemporary trends in design
- belonging to the present time (syn: present-day)
contemporary leaders
- occurring in the same period of time (syn: contemporaneous)
the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart

Extra examples

...the absurd notion that early cave dwellers were contemporary with the dinosaurs...

...a magazine devoted to contemporary fashions...

He was a contemporary of George Washington.

She is politically very different from most of her contemporaries.

John Aubrey was a contemporary of Milton.

A frock was at once old-fashioned and tremendously contemporary.

The contemporary avant-garde composers all concur in the principle of the triad.

The wall hangings are thought to be roughly contemporary with the tiled floors.

Oswald was much admired by his contemporaries at the Academy.

Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries

We quote from our contemporary "The Vatican" the following remarkable statement.

We've chosen three examples of contemporary architecture for closer study.

In contemporary America the appearance of prosperity is all too often taken as a sign of propriety.

The book satirizes contemporary life.

...the church's strictures on the morals and mores of contemporary society...

Word forms

noun
singular: contemporary
plural: contemporaries
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