Dictionary Definition
contemporary adj
1 characteristic of the present; "contemporary
trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
[syn: modern-day]
2 belonging to the present time; "contemporary
leaders" [syn: present-day(a)]
3 occurring in the same period of time; "a rise
in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in
inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart"
[syn: contemporaneous] n : a
person of nearly the same age as another [syn: coeval]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Derived terms
Translations
from the same time period
- Albanian: bashkëkohor
- Finnish: senaikainen
- French: contemporain
- German: zeitgenössisch
- Hebrew:
- Italian: contemporaneo
- Polish: współczesny , współczesna , współczesne
- Portuguese: contemporâneo , contemporânea
- Russian: современный (sovr'em'énnyj)
- Slovene: sodoben , sodobna , sodobno
- Spanish: contemporario, contemporaria
- Swedish: samtida
- Telugu: సమకాలీన (samakaaleena)
- Turkish: çağdaş
modern
- Albanian: bashkëkohor modern
- Czech: současný
- Dutch: hedendaags, eigentijds
- French: contemporain
- German: zeitgenössisch
- Irish: nua-aimseartha
- Italian: contemporaneo
- Portuguese: contemporâneo , contemporânea , moderno , moderna
- Russian: современный (sovr'em'énnyj)
- Slovene: sodoben , sodobna , sodobno
- Spanish: contemporario, contemporaria
- Swedish: nutida
- Turkish: çağdaş, modern
- ttbc Breton: a-vremañ
- ttbc Dutch: hedendaags, eigentijds, contemporain
- ttbc Indonesian: kontemporer, masa kini, modern, satu jaman dengan, sejaman dengan
- ttbc Interlingua: contemporari
- ttbc Persian: معاصر (mo'aser), همروزگار (hamruzegar)
- ttbc Spanish: contemporario, contemporaria
Noun
Translations
someone living at the same time
- Dutch: tijdgenoot , tijdgenote
- Finnish: aikalainen
- French: contemporain
- Portuguese: contemporâneo
Related terms
- anachronistic, archaic: in the wrong time period
Extensive Definition
Contemporary can mean:
- Modern times in its generic sense, living, occurring, or existing, at the same time; often also used as a synonym for "modern"
- Contemporary philosophy, Western philosophy from c. 1960 - present
In music and arts:
- Contemporary, an art magazine
- Contemporary Records, a record label
- Contemporary
music, post-1945 art music
- Adult contemporary music, a radio format
- Contemporary Christian music, music focused on the Christian faith
- Contemporary art, defined as art produced anytime since WWII
- Contemporary dance, a modern form of dance
- Contemporary R&B, a modern form of rhythm & blues
Derived from romantic languages. ConTemp coming
from "con tiempo" in Spanish. Literally translating to "with time"
[with the times].
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
a la mode, abreast, accompanying, actual, advanced, agreeing, as is, associated, attendant, attending, au courant,
avant-garde, being,
coetaneous, coeternal, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coincident, coincidental, coinstantaneous,
collateral, concomitant, concurrent, connected, contemporaneous,
conterminous,
coterminous,
current, dead heat,
draw, existent, existing, extant, far out, fashionable,
forward-looking, fresh,
immanent, immediate, in, instant, isochronal, isochronous, latest, linked, mod, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, new, newfangled, newfashioned, novel, now, parallel, present, present-age,
present-day, present-time, progressive, red-hot,
related, running, simultaneous, streamlined, stylish, synchronal, synchronic, synchronous, that be, that
is, tie, topical, trendy, twentieth-century,
ultra-ultra, ultramodern, unison, unisonous, up, up-to-date, up-to-datish,
up-to-the-minute, way out