contemporary

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1631, from Medieval Latin contemporarius, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + temporarius (“of time”), from tempus (“time”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kənˈtɛm.pəˌɹɛɹ.i/
  

  

Adjective

contemporary (comparative more contemporary, superlative most contemporary)

1. from the same time period, coexistent in time.
2. modern, of the present age.

Synonyms

• contemporaneous

Antonyms

• anachronistic: in the wrong time period
• archaic

Translations

from the same time period

Albanian: bashkëkohor (sq) Arabic: معاصر (ar) (mu3aaSir) Bulgarian: едновременен (bg) Chinese: Mandarin: 現代的 (zh), 现代的 (zh) (xiàndài de) Danish: samtidig (da) Dutch: gelijktijdig (nl), eigentijds (nl), contemporain (nl) Finnish: senaikainen French: contemporain (fr) German: zeitgenössisch (de) Hebrew: בן דור (he) (ben dor) Hungarian: kortárs (hu) Italian: contemporaneo (it) Japanese: 現代的 (ja) ((げんだいてき, gendai-teki)

Korean: 현대의 (ko) (hyeondae-ui) Malay: sezaman (ms) Manx: co-emshiragh (gv) Persian: معاصر (fa) (mo'âser) Polish: współczesny (pl) Portuguese: contemporâneo (pt) Romanian: contemporan (ro) m. and n., contemporani (ro) m. pl., contemporană (ro) f. Russian: современный (ru) (sovreménnyj) Scottish Gaelic: co-aimsireil (gd) Slovene: sodoben (sl) Spanish: contemporario (es), contemporáneo (es) Swedish: samtida (sv) Telugu: సమకాలీన (samakaaleena) Turkish: çağdaş (tr)

modern

Albanian: bashkëkohor modern Arabic: عصري (ar) (3áSriy), حديث (ar) (Hadiith), معاصر (ar) (mu3aaSir) Bulgarian: съвременен (bg), модерен (bg) Chinese: Mandarin: 現代的 (zh), 现代的 (zh) (xiàndài de), 摩登 (zh) (módēng), 近代的 (zh) (jìndài de) Czech: současný (cs) m. Danish: moderne (da), nutids- (da) Dutch: hedendaags (nl), eigentijds (nl) French: contemporain (fr) German: zeitgenössisch (de), modern (de) Hungarian: kortárs (hu) Irish: nua-aimseartha

Italian: contemporaneo (it) Japanese: 現代的 (ja) ((げんだいてき, gendai-teki), 近代的 (ja) (きんだいてき, kindai-teki), モダンな (ja) (modan-na) Korean: 현대의 (ko) (hyeondae-ui) Persian: نوین (fa) (novin) Portuguese: contemporâneo m., contemporânea f., moderno m., moderna f. Russian: современный (ru) (sovreménnyj) Scottish Gaelic: co-aimsireil (gd) Slovene: sodoben (sl) Spanish: contemporáneo (es), contemporario (es) Swedish: nutida (sv) Turkish: çağdaş (tr), modern (tr)

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Breton: a-vremañ Indonesian: kontemporer, masa kini, modern, satu jaman dengan, sejaman dengan Interlingua: contemporari Persian: معاصر (mo'aser), همروزگار (hamruzegar)

Noun

contemporary (plural contemporaries)

1. Someone living at the same time.

   Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare

2. Any creature living at the same time.

   The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries

3. Something existing at the same time.

   Often contemporary customs differ as if dating from different ages, whether they do or not

Translations

someone living (or something existing) at the same time

Bulgarian: съвременник (bg) m., съвременница (bg) f. Czech: současník (cs) m., současnice (cs) f. Dutch: tijdgenoot m., tijdgenote f. Finnish: aikalainen (fi) French: contemporain (fr) m. German: Zeitgenosse (de) m., Zeitgenossin (de) f.

Greek: σύγχρονο (el) m. Hungarian: kortárs (hu) Malay: sezaman (ms) Portuguese: contemporâneo m. Russian: современник (ru) (sovr'em'énnik) m., современница (ru) f. Ukrainian: сучасник (uk) m., сучасниця (uk) f.

External links

• contemporary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• contemporary in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• contemporary at OneLook Dictionary Search