contemporary
Meaning of contemporary
noun
- Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.
Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.
- Something existing at the same time.
- From the same time period, coexistent in time.
- Modern, of the present age.
Information about contemporary
- The plural form of contemporary is: contemporaries.
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Hyphenation of contemporary
con-tem-po-rary
- It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
- contemporary is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
contemporary synonyms
Meaning contemporaneous:
Meaning coeval:
Meaning :
contemporary antonyms
Meaning :
anachronistic, archaic, coming
Translation of contemporary
- German: modern, zeitgenössisch, heutig, jetztzeitig
- French: moderne, contemporain
- Spanish: moderno, contemporáneo, moderna, contemporánea
- Portuguese: contemporâneo
- Italian: contemporaneo
Words that rhyme with contemporary
interlibrary, library, nonlibrary, Crary, naucrary, sacrary, Biblicoliterary, Tipperary, cinerary, conumerary, extraliterary, federary, funerary, itinerary, literary, nonliterary, numerary, onerary, operary, overliterary, ponderary, preliterary, proliterary, pseudoliterary, siserary, sisserary, subliterary, supernumerary, unliterary, vulnerary, frary, arborary, cotemporary, cursorary, dishonorary, extemporary, honorary, horary, noncontemporary, nontemporary, orary, precontemporary, refectorary, stercorary, temporary, ultracontemporary, uncontemporary, untemporary, vaporary, ferrary
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