contemporary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin contemporārius, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + temporārius, an adjective derived from tempus (“time”).
Inflected forms:
form: more contemporary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most contemporary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: contemporaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous.
pos: adj
examples: A neighb'ring Wood born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees.
As this King [Henry VIII] vvas contemporary vvith the greateſt Monarchs of Europe, viz. the Emperor, the Kings of Spain and France, ſo he vvas engaged in many VVars, and in divers Leagues and Pacifications vvith them or either of them; for the better conſulting the Peace of Mankind.
gloss: Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’).
pos: adj
examples: We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
Men In Black 3 finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a contemporary intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh Brolin, who plays the younger version of Smith’s stone-faced future partner, Tommy Lee Jones.
gloss: Someone or something belonging to the same time period (as someone or something else)
pos: noun
examples: Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.
The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries.
Life is predicated by the decisions and choices we make – and, earlier this year, the personal fused with the professional again as Mata reached the landmark moment when he knew he had to try to harness football’s power for the benefit of people less fortunate than him and his contemporaries.
More than most of her contemporaries on “LeftTube,” [Contrapoints] has a style; her editorial signature is an unmistakably ornate flourish.
Thinking more metaphorically, his American contemporary James Russell Lowell wrote: “It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.” Had he lived to the year 2021, he might have changed his mind.
gloss: Something existing at the same time.
pos: noun
gloss: Something existing at the same time.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: 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— […]
Synonyms: coetaneous
coeval
contemporaneous
coincident
contemporary
cotemporal
cotemporaneous
Antonyms: noncontemporary
uncontemporary
Related words: penecontemporary
present
Derived words: adult contemporary
contemporarily
contemporariness
contemporary circus
contemporary gospel
contemporary R&B
contemporize
hot adult contemporary
noncontemporary
penecontemporary
precontemporary
rhythmic contemporary
ultracontemporary
uncontemporary
urban contemporary
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: ժամանակակից
roman: žamanakakicʻ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: çağdaş
lang: Azerbaijani
word: həməsr
lang: Azerbaijani
word: müasir
lang: Bulgarian
word: съвреме́нник
roman: sǎvreménnik
lang: Bulgarian
word: съвреме́нница
roman: sǎvreménnica
lang: Catalan
word: contemporani
lang: Czech
word: současník
lang: Czech
word: současnice
lang: Dutch
word: tijdgenoot
lang: Dutch
word: tijdgenote
lang: Finnish
word: aikalainen
lang: French
word: contemporain
lang: Georgian
word: თანამედროვე
roman: tanamedrove
lang: German
word: Zeitgenosse
lang: German
word: Zeitgenossin
lang: Greek
word: σύγχρονο
roman: sýnchrono
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σύγχρονος
roman: súnkhronos
lang: Hungarian
word: kortárs
lang: Icelandic
word: jafnaldri
lang: Icelandic
word: samtíðarmaður
lang: Irish
word: comhaois
lang: Italian
word: contemporaneo
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: hevçax
lang: Kyrgyz
word: замандаш
roman: zamandaş
lang: Macedonian
word: современик
roman: sovremenik
lang: Malay
word: sezaman
lang: Portuguese
word: contemporâneo
lang: Romanian
word: contemporan
lang: Russian
word: совреме́нник
roman: sovreménnik
lang: Russian
word: совреме́нница
roman: sovreménnica
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: comhaois
lang: Spanish
word: contemporáneo
lang: Tagalog
word: kapanahon
lang: Turkish
word: çağdaş
lang: Turkish
word: çağcıl
lang: Ukrainian
word: сучасник
roman: sučasnyk
lang: Ukrainian
word: сучасниця
roman: sučasnycja