contemporary
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[edit] Etymology
Recorded since 1631, from Medieval Latin contemporarius, from Latin con- "with, together" + temporarius "of time" (from tempus "time")
[edit] Adjective
contemporary (comparative more contemporary, superlative most contemporary)
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- from the same time period, coexistent in time.
- modern, of the present age.
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[edit] Antonyms
- anachronistic: in the wrong time period
- archaic
[edit] Translations
from the same time period
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modern
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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)
- Spanish: contemporario
[edit] Noun
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contemporary (plural contemporaries)
- Someone living at the same time.
- Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare
- Any creature living at the same time.
- The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries
- Something existing at the same time.
- Often contemporary customs differ as if dating from different ages, whether they do or not
[edit] Translations
someone living (or something existing) at the same time
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