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contemporary

//kənˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹə.ɹi//

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

formal

Note for contemporary

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Forms

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative
more contemporary
Superlative
most contemporary

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
contemporaries

Definitions

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

  1. 1.From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous.

    • A neighb'ring Wood born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees.

  2. 2.Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’).

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.Someone or something belonging to the same time period (as someone or something else)

    • Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.
    • The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries.
    • More than most of her contemporaries on “LeftTube,” [Contrapoints] has a style; her editorial signature is an unmistakably ornate flourish.

  2. 2.Something existing at the same time.

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #2451

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Uncommon
Academic
Uncommon
Literature
Rare

Etymology

From Medieval Latin contemporārius

From Latin con- (“with, together”) + temporārius, an adjective derived from tempus (“time”).

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