Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - contemporary
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Contemporary
contemporary
~1 adj 1 belonging to the present time; modern (contemporary music/art/dance etc) (an exhibition of contemporary Japanese prints) 2 happening or existing in the same period of time ~2 n someone who was in a particular place or who lived at the same time as someone else (Oswald was much admired by his contemporaries at the Royal Academy.)
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(contemporaries) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Contemporary things are modern and relate to the present time. She writes a lot of contemporary music for people like Whitney Houston... Only the names are ancient; the characters are modern and contemporary. ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. Contemporary people or things were alive or happened at the same time as something else you are talking about. ...drawing upon official records and the reports of contemporary witnesses. ADJ: usu ADJ n 3. Someone’s contemporary is a person who is or was alive at the same time as them. Like most of my contemporaries, I grew up in a vastly different world. N-COUNT: usu pl, poss N ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. adjective Etymology: com- + Latin tempor-, tempus Date: 1631 1. happening, existing, living, or coming into being during the same period of time 2. a. simultaneous b. marked by characteristics of the present period ; modern, current • contemporarily adverb Synonyms: ~, contemporaneous, coeval, synchronous, simultaneous, coincident mean existing or occurring at the same time. ~ is likely to apply to people and what relates to them Abraham Lincoln was ~ with Charles Darwin. contemporaneous is more often applied to events than to people contemporaneous accounts of the kidnapping. coeval refers usually to periods, ages, eras, eons two stars thought to be coeval. synchronous implies exact correspondence in time and especially in periodic intervals synchronous timepieces. simultaneous implies correspondence in a moment of time the two shots were simultaneous. coincident is applied to events and may be used in order to avoid implication of causal relationship the end of World War II was coincident with a great vintage year. II. noun (plural -raries) Date: 1638 1. one that is ~ with another 2. one of the same or nearly the same age as another ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. & n. --adj. 1 living or occurring at the same time. 2 approximately equal in age. 3 following modern ideas or fashion in style or design. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 a person or thing living or existing at the same time as another. 2 a person of roughly the same age as another. Derivatives contemporarily adv. contemporariness n. contemporarize v.tr. (also -ise). Etymology: med.L contemporarius (as contemporaneous) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. современник Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries —- Петрарка был современников Чосера we were contemporaries at school —- мы учились в школе в одно и тоже время is this musician a contemporary? —- этот музыкант наш современник? 2. ровесник, сверстник 3. газета или периодическое издание, выходящие одновременно с другой газетой или изданием 4. (C.) современный стиль (мебели и т. п; 50-е годы XX в.) 5. современный contemporary writers —- современные писталеи contemporary society —- современное общество contemporary history —- новейшая история 6. разг. в современном стиле; по последней моде; модерновый art contemporary —- современное искусство contemporary furniture —- мебель в современном стиле 7. (часто with) современный (чему-л.) 8. одновременный events contemporary with each other —- события, происшедшие одновременно writers contemporary with the events they write of —- писатели - современники событий, которые они описывают a contemporary record of events —- запись о событиях, сделанная их современником ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) современник 2) сверстник 3) издание, произведение, вышедшее в тот же период, что и другое 2. adj. 1) современный 2) одновременный 3) одного возраста; одной эпохи Syn: see modern ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 1631, from M.L. contemporarius, from L. con- "with" + temporarius "of time," from tempus "time" (see temper). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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