contemporary

IPA: kʌntˈɛmpɝɛri

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.

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.
In our not-so-distant past, the word "contemporary" simply meant, "occurring in the present."
The concept of galvanism was recently explored in contemporary art by Canadian artist Garnet Hertz.
This year, ABT invoked the word "contemporary" to describe the season's works, which included dances from 1979 to this year.
The term contemporary formation is here taken in the sense attached to it by geologists, in speaking of beds of quartz in clay-slate, granular limestone in mica-slate or feldspar in gneiss.
In the world of competitive dance conventions and, more recently, shows like So You Think You Can Dance, the word "contemporary" has morphed from a simple descriptor to its own quite specific and potentially limiting dance form.
I don't necessarily know how or why, but somewhere along the line the competitive dance scene think the little girls from Lifetime's Dance Moms and their high school counterparts hijacked the word "contemporary" from its simple dictionary definition.