contemporary
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Britannica Dictionary definition of CONTEMPORARY
1
:happening or beginning now or in recent times
- contemporary [=modern] jazz/poetry/art/furniture
- The story is old, but it has importance tocontemporary [=current] audiences.
2
:existing or happening in the same time period:from the same time period
- The book is based oncontemporary accounts of the war. [=accounts of the war that were written when the war was happening]
2 contemporary/kənˈtɛmpəreri/Brit/kənˈtɛmpərəri/noun
pluralcontemporaries
2 contemporary
/kənˈtɛmpəreri/Brit/kənˈtɛmpərəri/
noun
pluralcontemporaries
Britannica Dictionary definition of CONTEMPORARY
[count]
:a person who lives at the same time or is about the same age as another person
- He was acontemporary of George Washington.
- She is politically very different from most of hercontemporaries.
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