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Definition: Contemporary |
ContemporaryAdjective1. Characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine". 2. Belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders". 3. Occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart". Noun1. A person of nearly the same age as another. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "contemporary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Heisei (平成) is the current era name in Japan. The name was introduced by Akihito, the current emperor of Japan, after the death of his father, Hirohito, the Showa Emperor in 1989. 1989 thus corresponds to Heisei 1, and 2003 is Heisei 15.
Events
In 1993, the Liberal Democratic Party, which had controlled the Japanese government for 38 years, was ousted by a coalition led by Hosokawa Morihiro.
In 1995, there was a large earthquake in Kobe. The same year, there was a sarin gas terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway system by the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo.
See also
- Japanese era name
< Showa period | History of JapanSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Heisei."
Synonyms: ContemporarySynonyms: contemporaneous (adj), modern-day (adj), present-day(a) (adj), coeval (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Synchronism | Contemporary, coetanian. |
Adjective: synchronous, synchronal, synchronic, synchronical, synchronistical; simultaneous, coexisting, coincident, concomitant, concurrent; coeval, coevous; contemporary, contemporaneous; coetaneous; coeternal; isochronous. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Contemporary |
| English words defined with "contemporary": Antiochian, assorted, audacious ♦ Coetanean, concentrate, contemporaneous, Cotemporary ♦ daring ♦ H. G. Wells, Herbert George Wells ♦ ignorant ♦ Koussevitzky ♦ miscellaneous, mixed, modern, modernism, motley ♦ nescient ♦ Precoetanean, pre-eclampsia, pre-eminently ♦ Serge Koussevitzky, Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky, stage, sundry ♦ unenlightened, unlearned, unlettered ♦ venturesome, venturous ♦ Wells. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "contemporary": Apelles ♦ Buffoons ♦ CDA, COMMERCIAL DESIGNER ♦ Databases, Factual, Dondasch' ♦ Fathers of the Church, Fleshly School, FLY ♦ GEORGE IV ♦ Habakkuk, Hierarchical Music Specification Language ♦ Jocelin de Brakelonda ♦ King of Painters ♦ Lucus a non Lucendo ♦ Meraiah, Motorola 68000, Myron ♦ neo-colonialization ♦ Obadiah. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "contemporary": synchronism. (references) |
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Screenplays | Oh stop it, you're having an affair with your college professor, that jerk that teaches that incredible crap course, Contemporary Crisis in Western Man (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) | |
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 | "Evening Amusements": crewmembers playing cards and reading in their berthing spaces, circa 1895-1898. Halftone photograph, copied from the contemporary publication Uncle Sam's Navy, 1898. Credit: NAVY. |  | Photograph of a contemporary artwork, depicting the Spanish fleet in action during the Battle. The Spanish flagship Reina Cristina is at left. Cavite is at right. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Probably photographed at New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1918. She later was renamed Yuma (YT-37). Note carved eagle on her foremast, just forward of the pilothouse. Such eagles were common decorations on contemporary tugs. Credit: NAVY. |  | At anchor prior to her World War I Navy service. One of nine 62'4" boats built by Herreshoff, of Bristol, Rhode Island, specifically for Naval service, and known initially as Herreshoff Hull 316, this craft was taken over by the Navy and placed in commission on 18 September 1917 as USS Kangaroo (SP-1284). She was transferred to the Treasury Department on 22 November 1919. This photograph, in which the name "Kangaroo" is faintly visible on the boat's pilothouse, was also used on the contemporary "SP" record cards of two sisters: Daiquiri (SP-1285) and War Bug (SP-1795). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Montage featuring a painting of the ship (by De Simone, Naples, 1878) and views of four officers who served in her in 1864-1865. The officers are (clockwise from upper right): Lieutenant Roswell H. Lamson., Commanding Officer; Henry S. Hutchings, Paymaster's Clerk; Acting Master's Mate H.J. ("I" ?) Derbyshire; and Acting 3rd Assistant Engineer Enoch B. Carter (probably -- there is no Engineer named "William Carter" in contemporary Navy Registers). Credit: NAVY. |  | Line engraving by Warren, after a drawing by John Andrew, published in a contemporary illustrated magazine. It depicts the launch of USS Merrimack (incorrectly spelled "Merrimac" on the print) at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, on 15 June 1855. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Reproduction of a contemporary lithograph, copied from the book "Arthur Winslow". This steamer served as USS R.R. Cuyler during the Civil War. Credit: NAVY. |  | Arrives at Kiel, Germany, on 23 October 1939, with her crew at quarters. The battleship Scharnhorst is in the background. U-47 was returning from the mission in which she sank the British battleship Royal Oak inside Scapa Flow on 14 October. This is a halftone image, copied from a contemporary publication. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Contemporary colored print, showing USS Olympia in the left foreground, leading the U.S. Asiatic Squadron in destroying the Spanish fleet off Cavite. A vignette portrait of Rear Admiral George Dewey is featured in the lower left. Credit: NAVY. |  | The Beacon : a magazine of esoteric philosophy, presenting the principles of the Ageless Wisdom as a contemporary way of life. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Contemporary architecture" by Ren Schroeder Commentary: "Inside hall looking to the blue sky outside." | "Museu" by Billy Fowks Commentary: "Contemporary museum in Barcelona, Spain I would love to know what my pictures are being used for. Please let me know. Thanks!." |
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 | Upbeat contemporary jazz style music. | | A rock-influenced piece very characteristic of a contemporary rock sound circa 1980's. |
| Adult contemporary synthesizer piece heard a lot in the mid-1980's. | | Soprano saxophone solo in a highly rhythmic contemporary jazz excerpt. |
| A contemporary smooth jazz tune. | | Contemporary jazz style using a Latin-sounding muted trumpet. |
| Solo tenor saxophone playing in a contemporary jazz style. | | A contemporary jazz piece featuring a tenor saxophone. |
| Contemporary Latin- or Caribbean-influenced excerpt with a synthesized melody. | | A quick swing style piece played in a contemporary jazz style. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Beyond the five or six great exceptions, which are the wonder of their age, contemporary admiration is nothing but shortsightedness |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These should conform to contemporary standards of design, implementation, analysis, and reporting. (references) | |
Investigation of genetic bases for susceptibility to NIHL, using contemporary techniques, including molecular biology. (references) | ||
These phenotypes should be based on quantitative assessment of brain structure and function, and contemporary neuropsychological assessment. (references) | ||
Business | A cellular phone is also a contemporary symbol of success and affluence. (references) | |
For women, the winning packaging presentation typically was a bright, contemporary pack in primary colors. (references) | ||
Due to their high quality standards and state of the art design concepts U.S. firms are perceived as able to contribute contemporary design and training. (references) | ||
Economic History | Russia | New, contemporary technologies are needed. (references) |
Oman | There is no contemporary history of arbitrary seizures of land. (references) | |
Romania | Poetry and the theater play an important role in contemporary Romanian life. (references) | |
Human Rights | Albania | The Albanian Helsinki Committee, the Albanian Human Rights Group, the Albanian Center for Human Rights, the Society for Democratic Culture, the Albanian Media Institute, SOROS Foundation, the Albanian Institute for Contemporary Studies, the Women's Center, and Women in Development were among the most active domestic NGO's involved in addressing human rights problems. (references) |
Travel | Turkey | A foreigner visiting any one of the large cities in Turkey will find himself or herself in an atmosphere similar to that of a contemporary western city. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FLY-:SPECK:, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the various literary nations depended originally upon the social habits and general diet of the flies infesting the several countries. These creatures, which have always been distinguished for a neighborly and companionable familiarity with authors, liberally or niggardly embellish the manuscripts in process of growth under the pen, according to their bodily habit, bringing out the sense of the work by a species of interpretation superior to, and independent of, the writer's powers. The "old masters" of literature -- that is to say, the early writers whose work is so esteemed by later scribes and critics in the same language -- never punctuated at all, but worked right along free-handed, without that abruption of the thought which comes from the use of points. (We observe the same thing in children to-day, whose usage in this particular is a striking and beautiful instance of the law that the infancy of individuals reproduces the methods and stages of development characterizing the infancy of races.) In the work of these primitive scribes all the punctuation is found, by the modern investigator with his optical instruments and chemical tests, to have been inserted by the writers' ingenious and serviceable collaborator, the common house-fly -- Musca maledicta. In transcribing these ancient MSS, for the purpose of either making the work their own or preserving what they naturally regard as divine revelations, later writers reverently and accurately copy whatever marks they find upon the papyrus or parchment, to the unspeakable enhancement of the lucidity of the thought and value of the work. Writers contemporary with the copyists naturally avail themselves of the obvious advantages of these marks in their own work, and with such assistance as the flies of their own household may be willing to grant, frequently rival and sometimes surpass the older compositions, in respect at least of punctuation, which is no small glory. Fully to understand the important services that flies perform to literature it is only necessary to lay a page of some popular novelist alongside a saucer of cream-and-molasses in a sunny room and observe "how the wit brightens and the style refines" in accurate proportion to the duration of exposure. |
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| "Contemporary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.26% of the time. "Contemporary" is used about 4,296 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.26% | 4,264 | 2,303 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.65% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.09% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,296 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "contemporary": Contemporary homeopathy ♦ contemporary witness ♦ contemporary world. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "contemporary": contemporary-style. | |
Ending with "contemporary": near-contemporary. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "contemporary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i sotëm (actual, neoteric, nowaday, of today, present day), i kohës (modern), bashkëkohor (coeval, modern, neoteric, new, opportune, recent), bashkëkohës (coeval, contemporaneous). (various references) | |
Arabic | متواقت (synchronous), معاصر (contemporaneous), حديث جديد (fresh, modern, neoteric, new, recent, up to date), المتعاصر, اللدة من ولد مع غيره في عام واحد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съвременник (coeval), съвременен (advanced, contemporaneous, latter day, modern, modernistic, neoteric, new, present, present day, recent, up to date, with it), връстник (coeval). (various references) | |
Chinese | 同時代 , 当代 (Contemporaries, present-day). (various references) | |
Czech | vrstevník, souèasník, souèasný (actual, coeval, concurrent, contemporaneous, going, ongoing, present, present day, running, simultaneous, synchronic, up to date), moderní (advanced, fashionable, filigree, going, latter day, mod, modern, neoteric, neoterical, new, newfangled, new-fashioned, present day, trendy, up to date, with it), dnešní (current, hodiernal, latter day, today's). (various references) | |
Danish | undersoegelser af aktuelle problemer inden for boernesygdomme,alderdomssygdomme og organisatoriske og tekniske spoergsmaal inden for sundhedstjenesten (gerontology and the organization and techniques of medical services, study of contemporary problems of pediatrics), Pilotprojekt om økonomisk støtte til oversættelser af værker fra samtidslitteraturen (Pilot scheme to provide financial aid for translations of contemporary literary works). (various references) | |
Dutch | VN-Vrijwillig Fonds voor de Slachtoffers van Slavernij (UN Voluntary Fund on Contemporary Forms oF Slavery), Vereniging van Galeriehouders en handelaren in Hedendaagse Kunst (Association of Galleries and Dealers in Contemporary Art), studie van hedendaagse problemen van kindergeneeskunde, gerontologie en de organisatie en technieken van medische dienstenverlening (gerontology and the organization and techniques of medical services, study of contemporary problems of pediatrics), Modelproject voor financiële steun voor vertalingen van hedendaags litterair werk (Pilot scheme to provide financial aid for translations of contemporary literary works), Keesings Historisch Archief (Keesing's Contemporary Archives). (various references) | |
Farsi | معاصر (Contemporaneous, Current), همزمان (Simultaneity, Simultaneous, Synchronic), هم دوره . (various references) | |
Finnish | aikalainen. (various references) | |
French | contemporain (coeval, contemporaneous), de même âge. (various references) | |
German | zeitgenosse (coeval), zeitgenössisch (coeval), Altersgenosse. (various references) | |
Greek | σύγχρονοσ (coeval, contemporaneous, cotemporary, current, latter day, modern, synchronous, up to date), σύγχρονος (a latter-day hero, latter-day, modern, up to date), μοντέρνοσ (cotemporary, fashionable, modern, modish, new fangled, stylish). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עכשוי (actual, current, here and now, present, topical), בן זמנו, בן דורו. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kortárs (coeval), korabeli (period). (various references) | |
Indonesian | seumur (coeval), sejaman. (various references) | |
Italian | contemporaneo (contemporaneous), coevo (coeval), coetaneo (coetaneous). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 同期 (corresponding period, same class, same period, synchronous), 同年輩の人 (person of the same age), コンテナ船 (condense, condensed milk, condenser, condition, conditioner, conditioning, container ship, contents, contra, contrabass, contract, contraction, contralto, contrast, control, control amp, control program, control tower, controller, tale). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | どうねんぱいのひと (person of the same age), どうき (copperware, corresponding period, incentive, motive, palpitation, pulsation, same class, same period, same temperament, same turn of mind, synchronous, throbbing), コンテンポラリー . (various references) | |
Korean | 현대 (modern, present-day). (various references) | |
Manx | co-emshiragh (contemporaneous), coasan. (various references) | |
Norwegian | samtidig. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ontemporarycay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | contemporâneo (coeval, contemporaneous, living, present-day). (various references) | |
Romanian | contemporan (coeval, contemporaneous, late-day, nowaday, present, present day). (various references) | |
Russian | сверстник (coeval), современный (coeval, contemporaneous, latter day, latter-day, modern, modern-day, neoteric, new, nowaday, nowaday's, present day, present-day, recent, up to date), современник современный, современник, ровесник. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vršnjak (coeval, peer), savremenik, savremen (coeval, contemporaneous, modern, modern-day, neoteric, new, up to date). (various references) | |
Spanish | contemporáneo (Comrade, contemporaneous, current, live, present), contempora/neo, coetáneo (coeval), coeta/neo, de tiempo actual. (various references) | |
Swedish | samtidig (coeval, coincident, contemporaneous, isochronal, isochronous, simultaneous), samtida (contemporaneous), jämnårig. (various references) | |
Turkish | yaşıt (coeval, equal, peer), modern (advanced, groovy, hip, in the groove, latterday, modern, neoteric, new, streamlined, up to date), günümüze ait, eş zamanlarda yaşamış olan, eş zamanlı şey, aynı zamanda yaşamış olan kimse, aktüel (actual, newsworthy, topical, up to date), akran (coequal, coeval, compeer, counterpart, equal, fellow, peer), çağdaş (coeval, contemporaneous, latterday, modern, up to date), çağcıl (modern). (various references) | |
Turkmen | hдzirki (modern, present). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сучасник (coeval), сучасний (actual, coeval, contemporaneous, current, existent, latter day, modern, neoteric, new, new-day, nowaday, present day, recent, up to date, up-dated, with it), ровесник (coeval), одночасний (contemporaneous, isochronous, simultaneous, synchronous), одного віку (coeval). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người cùng thời (co-temporary). (various references) | |
Welsh | cyfoeswr, cyfoes, cyfoed (coeval). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aequalem, aequales, aequali, aequalis, coaequalem, coaequalis, coetaneos, con-. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "contemporary": noncontemporary, ultracontemporary, uncontemporary. (additional references) | |
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"Contemporary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comtemporary, contamporary, contemorary, contemparary, contemperary, contempoary, contemprary, contemproary, contemprorary, contomporary. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "contemporary" (pronounced kunte"mpere'rē) |
| 8 | -t e" m p er e' r ē | temporary. |
| 4 | -er e' r ē | itinerary, funerary, honorary, literary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, budgetary, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, cemetery, centenary, cometary, commentary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, depositary, Dewberry, dictionary, dietary, dignitary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, judiciary, lapidary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, formulary, fragmentary, functionary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, interplanetary, involuntary, legendary, library, luminary, mercenary, military, missionary, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, nonmilitary, obituary, ordinary, paramilitary, pecuniary, pituitary, planetary, preliminary, primary, probationary, proprietary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, savagery, secondary, secretary, sedentary, semilegendary, seminary, solitary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, Tilbury, topiary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-m-n-o-o-p-r-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: procaryote. | |
-3 letters: carpentry, copartner, copayment, cormorant, corporate, crematory, precatory, procreant, protonema, temporary. | |
-4 letters: aeronomy, anteroom, cartoony, coenamor, cometary, comparer, contrary, coparent, copatron, coronary, coronate, crampoon, cremator, cryotron, enactory, mercapto, monetary, monocarp, monocrat, monocyte, monotype, moratory, motorcar, octonary, operator, portance, promoter, pronator, ratooner, romancer. | |
-5 letters: acronym, anymore, carport, carroty, carryon, cartoon, company, compare, compart, compone. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-m-n-o-o-p-r-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: contemporarily, uncontemporary. | |
+3 letters: noncontemporary. | |
+4 letters: overcompensatory. | |
+5 letters: ultracontemporary. | |
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