How to pronounce“contemporary”in English
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Definitions of “contemporary”
From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous.
“A neighb'ring Wood born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees.”
Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’).
“We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.”
Someone or something belonging to the same time period (as someone or something else)
“Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.”
Something existing at the same time.
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