CONTEMPORARY meaning: Belonging to the same time

We found 30 dictionaries that define the word contemporary:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

contemporary: Merriam-Webster.com
contemporary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
contemporary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
contemporary: Collins English Dictionary
contemporary: Vocabulary.com
Contemporary, contemporary: Wordnik
contemporary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
contemporary: Wiktionary
contemporary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
contemporary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
contemporary: Infoplease Dictionary
Contemporary, contemporary: Dictionary.com
contemporary: Online Etymology Dictionary
contemporary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Contemporary (disambiguation), Contemporary (magazine), Contemporary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Contemporary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
contemporary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
contemporary: Rhymezone
contemporary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
contemporary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
contemporary: Free Dictionary
contemporary: Mnemonic Dictionary
contemporary: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

contemporary: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
Contemporary: art glossary

Business (1 matching dictionary)

contemporary: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

contemporary: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Contemporary: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Belonging to or occurring in the same time period (whether past, present, or future)
▸ 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.

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antique, outdated, ancient, old-fashioned, archaic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

Colors:

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

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