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1 —as in:
contemporary design
Definition
characteristic of or belonging to the present time- It's easier to find outstanding books when selecting from those that have been in print for a long time, but were it not for that I would prefer modern literature with its contemporary language, issues, and ideas.
contemporary = characteristic of or belonging to the present time
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- We're visiting the Museum of Contemporary Art.
- I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.Ian Hornak
- At this writing, only England has held back before the temptations of contemporary diabolism.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- Well, because Hawthorne's work is so extraordinary and applicable to contemporary society, I want each of you to write a report pertaining to the novel.Kody Keplinger -- The DUFF: (Designated Ugly Fat Friend)
- As Saeed was coming down from the hill to where Nadia again sat by their tent, a young woman was leaving the contemporary art gallery she worked at in Vienna.Moshin Hamid -- Exit West
- Toward the end of June, Chris, still in Atlanta, mailed his parents a copy of his final grade report: A in Apartheid and South African Society and History of Anthropological Thought; A minus in Contemporary African Politics and the Food Crisis in Africa.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- Contemporary legends such as the "underground pipe-line to Canada" attached themselves to him, and there was one persistent story that he didn't live in a house at all, but in a boat that looked like a house and was moved secretly up and down the Long Island shore.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- When she had had enough electricity to charge her backup battery, she would lounge around and listen to her records in the light of a single bare bulb, the harsh sounds of the fighting muffled somewhat by her music, and she would then glance at her windows and think that they looked a bit like amorphous black works of contemporary art.Moshin Hamid -- Exit West
- The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.Jorge Luis Borges
contemporary = characteristic of or belonging to the present time
contemporary = characteristic of or belonging to the present time
contemporary = belonging to the present time
contemporary = belonging to the present time
contemporary = belonging to the present time
contemporary = belonging to the present time
contemporary = belonging to the present time
contemporary = belonging to the present time
contemporary = characteristic of or belonging to the present time
2 —as in:
they are contemporaries
Definition
living at the same timeor:
something occurring in the same period of time as something else
- Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were contemporary artists who competed for some projects.
contemporary = lived at the same time
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- The composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart
- Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.William Faulkner
- This, from a contemporary critic's commentary on Madame Butterfly: "Pinkerton suffers from .... being an obnoxious bounder whom every man in the audience itches to kick."David Henry Hwang -- M. Butterfly
- Like her seventeenth-century contemporaries, Anna did not know what plague was or how it spread.Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
- As for the others in my story, in the early 1970s nearly all of my contemporaries were sent to the countryside for "reeducation."Ji-Li Jiang -- Red Scarf Girl
- It's an epic poem written by the great scholars about the great rulers who were their contemporaries.Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- It's what makes us different from our contemporaries in other colleges.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- The testimony of his contemporaries proclaims—and his life fully confirms—his metaphysical and mystical interests.Jorge Luis Borges -- The Garden of Forking Paths
- The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.Seamus Heaney -- Crediting Poetry
contemporary = lived at the same time
contemporary = something occurring in the same period of time as something else