Usually means: Belonging to the same time.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word Contemporary:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. contemporary: Merriam-Webster
  2. contemporary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contemporary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contemporary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contemporary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contemporary, contemporary: Wordnik
  7. contemporary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contemporary: Wiktionary
  9. contemporary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contemporary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contemporary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Contemporary, contemporary: Dictionary.com
  13. contemporary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. contemporary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Contemporary (disambiguation), Contemporary (magazine), Contemporary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Contemporary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. contemporary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. contemporary: Rhymezone
  19. contemporary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. contemporary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. contemporary: FreeDictionary.org
  22. contemporary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. contemporary: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. contemporary: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. contemporary: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Contemporary: art glossary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contemporary: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contemporary: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Contemporary: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contemporary)

▸ adjective:  From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous.
▸ adjective:  Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’).
▸ noun:  Someone or something belonging to the same time period (as someone or something else)
▸ noun:  Something existing at the same time.
▸ noun:  (dated) A rival newspaper or magazine.

Similar:
contemporaneous, coeval, synchronic, synchronal, synchronous, present-day, modern, current, classical, postmodern, more...

Opposite:
antique, outdated, ancient, old-fashioned, archaic

Types:
minimalist, postmodern, neo-classical, post-minimalist, neo-romantic, neo-expressionist, more...

Phrases:
Contemporary art, contemporary world, contemporary review, adult contemporary, contemporary folk, more...

Adjectives:
younger, greater, exact, older, more, near, famous, english, french, elder, illustrious

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Similar:
contemporaneous, coeval, synchronic, synchronal, synchronous, present-day, modern, current, classical, postmodern, more...

Opposite:
antique, outdated, ancient, old-fashioned, archaic

Types:
minimalist, postmodern, neo-classical, post-minimalist, neo-romantic, neo-expressionist, more...

Phrases:
Contemporary art, contemporary world, contemporary review, adult contemporary, contemporary folk, contemporary jazz, contemporary advertising, contemporary skepticism, urban contemporary, more...

Adjectives:
younger, greater, exact, older, more, near, famous, english, french, elder, illustrious

Colors:
    charcoal,     slate gray,     taupe,     sage green,     dusty rose, more...



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