Dictionary Entry
contemporary
contemporary is a 12-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
12 letters · Scrabble 21 · Words With Friends 24 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.
- 2adjective
Of the same age; coeval.
- 3noun
One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.
- 4noun
a person of nearly the same age as another
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- 5adjective
belonging to the present time
"contemporary leaders"
- 6adjective
characteristic of the present
"contemporary trends in design"
"the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
- 7adjective
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"
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