Sekirov Dictionary

contemporary

UK /kənˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹə.ɹi/US /kənˈtɛm.pəˌɹɛɹ.i/

noun 3
adjective 2
forms 3

noun3

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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.
Something existing at the same time.
(old-fashioned) A rival newspaper or magazine.

adjective2

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From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous.
- A neighb'ring Wood born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees. — 1667
Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’).

forms

contemporaries · more contemporary · most contemporary

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