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   contemporary

   /kənˈtɛmp(ə)r(ər)i/

   adjective

   • 1. living or occurring at the same time: "the event was recorded by a contemporary historian"
   • ▪ dating from the same time: "this series of paintings is contemporary with other works in an early style" Similar contemporaneousconcurrentcoevalsynchronoussynchronicof the timeof the daysimultaneouscoexistingcoexistentrare:coetaneous
   • 2. belonging to or occurring in the present: "the tension and complexities of our contemporary society" Similar modernpresent-daypresentcurrentpresent-timeimmediateextantup to dateup to the minutefashionablelatestrecentultra-modernnewfangledmodishvoguishin vogueà la modeinformal:bang up to datewith itOpposite old-fashionedout of date
   • ▪ following modern ideas in style or design: "contemporary ceramics by leading potters"

   noun

   • 1. a person or thing living or existing at the same time as another: "he was a contemporary of Darwin"
   • ▪ a person of roughly the same age as another: "my contemporaries at school"

   Word Origin mid 17th century: from medieval Latin contemporarius, from con- ‘together with’ + tempus, tempor- ‘time’ (on the pattern of Latin contemporaneus and late Latin contemporalis).

   Derivatives

   • 1. contemporarily adverb
   • 2. contemporariness noun

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