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# contemporary

adjective (contemporary); noun (a contemporary, contemporaries)

«contemporary» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Contemporary means modern, belonging to the present time: «contemporary art». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporary/#m1)
2. Contemporary means existing or happening at the same time as something else: «a contemporary report of the battle». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporary/#m2)
3. A contemporary is a person who lived at the same time as someone else. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporary/#m3)

### In the lessons

In art and music lessons «contemporary» means modern, of today. In history, contemporary sources were written at the time of the events and are useful evidence. Phrases: contemporary art, contemporary dance, contemporary of.

### Examples

- We visited a gallery of contemporary art. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporary/#x1)
- Shakespeare was a contemporary of Queen Elizabeth the First. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporary/#x2)
- A contemporary account describes the great fire. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporary/#x3)
- She loves contemporary dance. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporary/#x4)
- The house has a contemporary design. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporary/#x5)
- His contemporaries thought his ideas were crazy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporary/#x6)
- And he spoke of his works, and of his warlike deeds, which his contemporaries had known, but which had not been sung, because there was no singer among his companions. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporary/#x7)

### Note

Two meanings that can clash: «modern» and «of the same time». In history, a contemporary source is one from the time itself, not from today. Spelling: con-tem-po-rar-y.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «contemporary» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contemporary/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«contemporary» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/contemporary.html) on Mova free.