All 3 Uses of
contemporary
in
Gone with the Wind
- Scarlett had no awe of her father and felt him more her contemporary than her sisters, for jumping fences and keeping it a secret from his wife gave him a boyish pride and guilty glee that matched her own pleasure in outwitting Mammy.†
Chpt 1.2
- Her contemporaries, the young wives, mothers and widows, loved her because she had suffered what they had suffered, had not become embittered and always lent them a sympathetic ear.†
Chpt 4.41 *
- He had been more her contemporary than Scarlett's and she had been devoted to him.†
Chpt 4.47 *
Definitions:
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(contemporary as in: they are contemporaries) living at the same time
or:
something occurring in the same period of time as something else
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(contemporary as in: contemporary design) characteristic of or belonging to the present time