Contemporaneous

Definition: Contemporaneous

Contemporaneous

Adjective

1. 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".

2. Of the same period.

Date "contemporaneous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references)

Etymology: Contemporaneous \Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression contemporaneus; con- tempus time. See Temporal, and compare to Contemporaneous.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Mining	Formed or existing at the same time. Said of lava flows interbedded in a single time-stratigraphic unit, and generally of any feature or faciesthat develops during the formation of the enclosing rocks. (references)
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Synonyms: Contemporaneous

Synonyms: coetaneous (adj), coeval (adj), contemporary (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Synchronism	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: Contemporaneous

English words defined with "contemporaneous": contemporary, Cotemporaneous ♦ Equitemporaneous ♦ Monochronic ♦ Synchronology. (references)

Specialty definitions using "contemporaneous": bedded deposit ♦ cosedimentation ♦ distributive province ♦ facies change, flow unit, fracture system ♦ idiogenite, intraformational breccia. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	An Anthropology for Contemporaneous Worlds (Mestizo Spaces) (reference) Catholic moral teaching and its antagonists : viewed in the light of principle and of contemporaneous history (reference) Chopin the Composer: His Structural Art and Its Influence on Contemporaneous Music (reference) Hawthorne's Contemporaneous Reputation (reference) Holocaust Chronicles: Individualizing the Holocaust Through Diaries and Other Contemporaneous Personal Accounts (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Saudi Arabia	The Dilmun culture, along the Gulf coast, was contemporaneous with the Sumerians and ancient Egyptians, and most of the empires of the ancient world traded with the states of the peninsula. (references)
	Bolivia	Roughly contemporaneous with the Tiwanakan culture, the Moxos in the eastern lowlands and the Mollos north of present-day La Paz also developed advanced agricultural societies that had dissipated by the 13th century of our era. (references)
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"Contemporaneous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Contemporaneous" is used about 100 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)	100%	100	32,668

Expressions using "contemporaneous": be contemporaneous ♦ contemporaneous erosion. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "contemporaneous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i njëkohshëm (concurrent, simultaneous, synchronous), bashkëkohës (coeval, contemporary). (various references)

Arabic		‏معاصر (contemporary). (various references)

Bulgarian		съвременен (advanced, contemporary, latter day, modern, modernistic, neoteric, new, present, present day, recent, up to date, with it), едновременен (concomitant, concurrent, isochronal, simultaneous, synchronistic, synchronous). (various references)

Chinese		并世. (various references)

Czech		souèasný (actual, coeval, concurrent, contemporary, going, ongoing, present, present day, running, simultaneous, synchronic, up to date). (various references)

Danish		samtidig erosion (contemporaneous erosion). (various references)

Dutch		gelijktijdige erosie (contemporaneous erosion). (various references)

Farsi		معاصر (Contemporary, Current), هم زمان , هم عصر. (various references)

Finnish		samanaikainen (simultaneous). (various references)

French		contemporain (coeval, contemporary). (various references)

German		gleichzeitig (at once, at the same time, coeval, coevally, coincident, concurrent, concurrently, contemporary, simultaneous, simultaneously, together). (various references)

Greek		σύγχρονοσ (coeval, contemporary, cotemporary, current, latter day, modern, synchronous, up to date), ταυτόχρονοσ (coeval, concurrent, simultaneous). (various references)

Hungarian		egyidejû (concurrent, isochronal, isochronous, simultaneous, synchronous). (various references)

Indonesian		serentak (coeval, in unison, simultaneous), sebaya (coeval, of the same age). (various references)

Italian		contemporaneo (contemporary). (various references)

Manx		co-emshiragh (contemporary). (various references)

Pig Latin		ontemporaneouscay

Portuguese		contemporâneo (coeval, contemporary, living, present-day). (various references)

Romanian		contemporan (coeval, contemporary, late-day, nowaday, present, present day). (various references)

Russian		современный (coeval, contemporary, latter day, latter-day, modern, modern-day, neoteric, new, nowaday, nowaday's, present day, present-day, recent, up to date). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		savremen (coeval, contemporary, modern, modern-day, neoteric, new, up to date). (various references)

Spanish		contemporáneo (Comrade, contemporary, current, live, present). (various references)

Swedish		samtidig (coeval, coincident, contemporary, isochronal, isochronous, simultaneous), samtida (contemporary). (various references)

Turkish		eşzamanlı (isochronous, simultaneous, synchronous), eş zamanlı, çağdaş (coeval, contemporary, latterday, modern, up to date). (various references)

Ukrainian		сучасний (actual, coeval, contemporary, current, existent, latter day, modern, neoteric, new, new-day, nowaday, present day, recent, up to date, up-dated, with it), одночасний (contemporary, isochronous, simultaneous, synchronous). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	quod eodem tempore est. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "contemporaneous": contemporaneously, contemporaneousness, contemporaneousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Contemporaneous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: contemperaneous, contempoaneous, contemporaeous, contemporaine, Contemporanea, contemporaneo, contemporareous. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "contemporaneous" (pronounced kunte'mperā"nēus)
5	-ā" n ē u s	extraneous, miscellaneous, percutaneous, simultaneous, spontaneous.
4	-n ē u s	acrimonious, erroneous, felonious, harmonious, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, instantaneous, sanctimonious, unceremonious.
3	-ē u s	alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, commodious, copious, courteous, curious, deleterious, delirious, denarius, devious, dubious, envious, fastidious, furious, gaseous, glorious, gregarious, hideous, hilarious, illustrious, imperious, impervious, industrious, inglorious, injurious, insidious, invidious, laborious, lascivious, lugubrious, luxurious, melodious, meritorious, mysterious, nefarious, notorious, nucleus, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, odious, pancreas, penurious, precarious, previous, punctilious, radius, Sartorius, serious, spurious, studious, supercilious, tedious, various, vicarious, victorious, vitreous.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-m-n-n-o-o-o-p-r-s-t-u"
	-3 letters: counterpanes.
	-4 letters: compensator, counterpane, counterpose, motoneurons, noncomposer, noncomputer, noncustomer, pentamerous, purtenances, recoupments.
	-5 letters: centrosome, coetaneous, compensate, components, contemners, contemnors, cooperates, counterman, countermen, courantoes, encounters, escarpment, monstrance, motoneuron, nanometers, permanents, praenomens, pronounces, purtenance, recomputes, recoupment, treponemas.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-m-n-n-o-o-o-p-r-s-t-u"
	+2 letters: contemporaneously.
	+4 letters: contemporaneousness.
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Contemporaneous

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