Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Originating, existing, or happening during the same period of time: synonym: contemporary.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Living or existing at the same time; con-temporary. Also
cotemporaneous . - Synonyms See
coeval .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Existing orcreated in thesame period oftime .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of the same period
- adjective occurring in the same period of time
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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That would make sense from the point of view that Jack, though immortal and non-contemporaneous, is still human.
TORCHWOOD: CoE Part 3...Spoilers rabid1st 2009
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Data from a later period supports the favorable majority opinion of the influential Lohani chief formed during the first war, and indicates the relationship between Sarwar Khan and colonial authorities may have been more extensive than indicated in contemporaneous documents.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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(The paper itself does mention self-defense provisions in contemporaneous state constitutions and then nods to the 9th before genuflecting at the altar of the 14th.)
Balkinization 2006
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And we would feel constrained to confess ourselves poor diagnosticians if George Bernard Shaw, the enfant terrible of nimble wit in contemporaneous literature, succeeded in disproving the existence in himself of the same strain of blood as coursed in the veins of Heinrich Heine.
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And we would feel constrained to confess ourselves poor diagnosticians if George Bernard Shaw, the enfant terrible of nimble wit in contemporaneous literature, succeeded in disproving the existence in himself of the same strain of blood as coursed in the veins of Heinrich Heine.
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I am prompted to do so by the panegyrics pronounced by one and all here on the deed which is to form "the brightest page in contemporaneous history;" and, being in the minority, I must needs bow deferentially to the opinions of the mass.
The Mason and Slidell Case, and Its Effect on the Americans 1862
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Was it rarer in contemporaneous governments that weren’t fascist?
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Nevertheless, Augustine calls a contemporaneous Bishop of Rome the "head of the Western Church," and almost immediately after his death one ascended the episcopal chair at Rome whose ambition, energy, and personal bravery were a promise of those qualities which were to render his successors the kings of kings.
An Introduction to the History of Western Europe James Harvey Robinson 1899
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The motives which prompted it can be inferred by recalling contemporaneous political events.
Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890
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The motives which prompted it can be inferred by recalling contemporaneous political events.
Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 John George Nicolay 1866
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