contemporary
IPA: kʌntˈɛmpɝɛri
noun
- Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.
- Something existing at the same time.
- (dated) A rival newspaper or magazine.
adjective
- From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous.
- Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’).
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Examples of "contemporary" in Sentences
- The style of the food is contemporary French.
- Pashupathi was the contemporary of the Kadambas.
- He was a contemporary of the Western satrap Chastana.
- One of the wealthiest magnates in contemporary Poland.
- The aim of the essay is to ridicule contemporary poets.
- However there is no rejoinder in the contemporary section.
- The merger formed the basis of the contemporary university.
- The freight station to the north is contemporary with the depot.
- Hopper is the most modern of the American realists, and the most contemporary.
- The concept of galvanism was recently explored in contemporary art by Canadian artist Garnet Hertz.
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