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Definition of Contemporary

1. Adjective. Characteristic of the present. "The role of computers in modern-day medicine"

2. Noun. A person of nearly the same age as another.

3. Adjective. Belonging to the present time. "Contemporary leaders"

4. Adjective. Occurring in the same period of time. "The composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart"

Definition of Contemporary

1. a. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.

2. n. One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.

Definition of Contemporary

1. Adjective. From the same time period, coexistent in time. ¹

2. Adjective. Modern, of the present age. ¹

3. Noun. Someone living at the same time. ¹

4. Noun. Any creature living at the same time. ¹

5. Noun. Something existing at the same time. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Contemporary

1. [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contemporary

contemplatively contemplativeness contemplatives contemplator contemplators contempo contemporalities contemporality contemporaneity contemporaneous

contemporaneously contemporaneousness contemporaries contemporarily contemporariness contemporary contemporary world contemporisation contemporisations contemporise

contemporization contemporizations contemporize contemporized contemporizes contemporizing contempt contempt of Congress contempt of Parliament contempt of court

Literary usage of Contemporary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of English Literature by William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett (1918)
"CHAPTER XVI Contemporary LITERATURE IN a sense the historical treatment of English ... One striking and fundamental difference between contemporary and ..."

2. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1915)
"COMMENTS AND REVIEWS Contemporary POETRY AND THE UNIVERSITIES I HAVE had occasion lately to speak with several university professors of literature on the ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... and in the treatment of drapery we frequently note the over- elaboration of folds, the want of simplicity, which begin to mark contemporary sculpture. ..."

4. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"Contemporary REACTION AGAINST RATIONALISM AND IDEALISM We find in present-day ... We may distinguish several lines of thought in the contemporary reaction ..."

5. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1913)
"The identification of the whole work as the product of one author contemporary with Magna Carta had, therefore, to be based on internal evidence alone, ..."

6. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... At his Grave, Contemporary Review, vol. 39, p. 1017. Will the English race repair. We knew Mrs. Wyndham Lewis long before she became Lady Beaconsfield. ..."

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