contemporary
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4.2
- adjective
- /kənˈtɛmpəˌrɛri/
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coetáneo
- Native place and wealth, in turn, affect contemporary political alignments with local politicians and international interests.
- contemporary art
- contemporary history
- contemporary views
And so it would not have been so easy to translate Demotic, which which rendered a day-to-day speech, a contemporary language in this ancient script.
- And so it would not have been so easy to translate Demotic, which which rendered a day-to-day speech, a contemporary language in this ancient script.
Examples
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It's about contemporary cases of possession, mostly in the Third World.
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And contemporary philosophers disagree very sharply over these issues.
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Can you think of a contemporary political leader who engaged?
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Mark played the guitar and introduced us to the emerging Catholic contemporary music of the day.
Academic text (2015) -
Syphilis, in fact, was contemporary in its onset with plague.
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"The essay," said Mrs. Shevvington in English class, "is to write a contemporary parallel of a fairy tale."
Fiction book (1990) -
The portrait offended its contemporary viewers because it recalled the Terror and the disunity of France.
Academic text (2011) -
American protestant Evangelical interpreters regularly see ways in which the horsemen and revelation in general speak to contemporary events.
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Historians are currently debating why all traces of the flights were sponged from the contemporary chronicles so completely.
Fiction book (2001) -
The architectural style of the new library is contemporary, blending seamlessly with the older buildings nearby.
Synonyms
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8.4
Happening at the same time as another thing
Happening at the same time as another thing
Antonyms
Compounds
How Modern
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word contemporary comes from the Latin parts con- 'with' and tempor 'time'. So contemporary can describe things that happen in the same time period as something else.