contemporaryadj.n.

Brit.

/kənˈtɛmp(ə)r(ər)i/, U.S.

/kənˈtɛmpəˌrɛri/

Forms:

α. 1600s contemporarie, 1600s– contemporary, 1900s– contemp'ry (nonstandard).

β. 1600s– cotemporary (now rare and nonstandard), 1700s co-tempory.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from Latin, combined with English elements. Etymons: con- prefix, Latin tempor- , tempus , -ary suffix².

Etymology: Probably < con- prefix + classical Latin tempor-, tempus time (see temporal adj.¹ and n.¹) + -ary suffix². Compare earlier temporary adj. (which differs considerably in meaning). Compare earlier contemporan adj. contemporanean adj., and also later contemporal adj. and contemporaneous adj. and the Latin forms cited at those entries. With use as noun compare -ary suffix¹.Compare post-classical Latin contemporarius (noun) person living at the same time as another (15th cent. in a British source; rare), French †contemporaire , adjective and noun (late 17th cent.; probably < English; rare). Specific forms. The β. forms show remodelling after co- prefix. In the 18th cent. they became frequent, although already stigmatized in the late 17th cent. by Bentley as ‘a downright barbarism’ ( R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed., 1699) Pref. p.lxxxvi).

A. adj.

1. Belonging to the same era or period as another person, thing, or event; living, existing, or occurring together in a particular period; coexisting.

a. Without preposition.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adjective] > contemporary or belonging to the same period

contemporary1614

contemporal1621

contemporanean1627

contemporant1675

α.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. v. §6 51 The same being alreadie set downe, though scatteringly.., among other the Contemporarie occurrents of the Easterne Emperors.

1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 220 Asserting, that contemporary writers received his works with an ungrateful silence.

1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. Pref. 7 Immense archives of contemporary documents.

1959 Eng. Hist. Rev. 74 289 Amari discounted too much contemporary or near contemporary evidence in his anxiety to stress the spontaneous nature of the rising.

2015 J. Rubenstein First Crusade i. 2 A contemporary historian named Guibert of Nogent (ca. 1060–ca. 1125) viewed the First Crusade as..‘a new path to salvation’.

β. 1698 Earl of Orrery Dr. Bentley's Diss. Examin'd 167 Allowing then that Solon and Thespis were Cotemporary.1782 R. Orme Hist. Fragm. Mogul Empire (1783) 104 We do not find in the cotemporary accounts of that period, any mention of the Rajah of Chitore.1861 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. iv. 129 If Leibniz..had been understood and supported by cotemporary scholars, the science of language..might have been established a century earlier.1945 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 32 81 Cotemporary publications containing incidental allusions to the occurrences of the day.

b. With with.

ΚΠ

α.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxiii. §3 564 Then must these two be judged contemporarie with Hosea and Amos, who liued vnder King Vzzia.

1774 J. Carr tr. Lucian Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 182 He was contemporary with Hercules, by whom Troy was first taken, in the age of our fathers.

1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 66 Writers contemporary with the events they write of.

1954 N. W. DeWitt Epicurus & his Philos. i. 20 Men contemporary with Epicurus were incapable of recognizing him as a moral reformer.

2001 Hist. Today Nov. 20/1 Had large animals become extinct, and if so, had they once been contemporary with people?

β. 1642 P. Heylyn Hist. Episcopacie i. iii. 78 So much for the Bishops of Antiochia, which lived and were co-temporary with the Apostles.1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. vii. 238 Events subsequent and cotemporary with the Miracles.1893 Meehan's Monthly June 84/1 James Rowley, a dramatist co-temporary with Shakespeare.1914 Living Church 21 Mar. 740/1 Many obscure and little-known manuscripts and records, both co-temporary with the events and within the generation following.1954 Clogher Rec. 1 12 Dr. Tyrrell was co-temporary with Blessed Oliver Plunket.

c. With to, †unto.

ΚΠ

1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. v. 256 The Bishop of Rome, who was contemporary to Irenaeus.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xii. 251 Galen who was contemporary unto Plutarch.

1762 T. Smollett in Crit. Rev. May 437 He may have copied some writer cotemporary to that great man.

1839 C. H. Parry Parl. & Council Eng. Pref. 14 The Second Class of Authentic Documents..consists of the Historians who were contemporary to, or shortly followed, the events which they relate.

1931 5th Rep. Pennsylvania Hist. Comm. 124 It is too early to even suggest the possibility that these culturally unknown people are contemporary to the glyphs.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 June 17/1 Tom's letters were evidently more or less contemporary to Virginia's.

2. Happening or taking place simultaneously; occurring together at the same time; simultaneous. Frequently in mathematical or scientific contexts. Now rare.Later evidence for the form co-temporary frequently makes reference to, or paraphrases, the ideas of David Hume; see quot. 1739 at β. and cf. e.g. quot. 2009 at β. .

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adjective]

altogether?c1400

concurrent1495

contemporana1500

unison1582

coincident1598

coetaneal1614

coactivea1616

contemporal1621

synchronisticalc1624

coetanean1625

coetaneous1649

coinstantanean1652

synchronical1652

simultal1654

contemporary1656

contemporaneous1659

simultaneousa1660

coevous1660

synchronal1660

coexistent1662

implicit1662

synchronous1669

coexistinga1676

synchronistic1685

coeval1714

contemporany1721

synchronizinga1727

joint1765

coinstantaneous1768

consentaneous1775

coinciding1786

conterminating1805

synchronic1833

coincidental1845

parallel1859

homochronous1876

monochronic1905

co-occurring1951

co-occurrent1954

α.

1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. ii. xiii. 110 All the parts of them [i.e. lines] which are contemporary [L. contemporaneae], that is, which are described in the same time, will be Two to Two in Geometrical Proportion.

1760 F. Maseres Elements Plane Trigonom. 352 The first increment of OP is not..exactly equal to the contemporary decrement of AM.

1806 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) II. 290 Contemporary Fluents, or Contemporary Fluxions, are such as flow together, or for the same time.

1899 Elements Civil Engin. IV. 831 Professor Talbot gives the following as the ratio of storm water to contemporary rainfall.

β. 1692 T. Taylor tr. G. Daniel Voy. World Cartesius iv. 247 Division was made by Motion, and yet cotemporary with the same Motion.1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. iii. 138 If one cause were co-temporary with its effect, and this effect with its effect, and so on, 'tis plain there wou'd be no such thing as succession, and all objects must be co-existent.1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. III. xxxi. 320 The number of cotemporary turns of a wheel and pinion are reciprocally proportional to their number of teeth.2009 Mind 118 686 When we encounter a taste or a smell co-existing and co-temporary with related spatial perceptions (e.g. the colour and shape of a fig), our imagination..leads us to attribute location to it.

3. Having existed or lived from the same date; equal in age, coeval. Frequently with with.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adjective] > coeval or going back to the same date

contemporanean1575

coetaneous1608

coetanean1625

contemporaneous1645

coetany1649

coeval1652

coeve1659

coevous1660

contemporary1663

connascent1805

connate1819

isochronous1895

α.

1663 A. Cowley Verses Several Occasions 48 A neighbouring wood born with himself he sees, And loves his old contemporary trees.

1887 Leisure Hour June 395/1 To hear some persons speak, you might think that the different breeds of dog were contemporary with the creation.

1987 Yearbk. Eng. Stud. 17 62 Peers who are exactly contemporary in age or level of attainment.

2011 N. P. de Carvalho TRIPS Regime of Trademarks & Design (ed. 2) 46 Signs identifying merchants and fixing their liability to commercial contracts are contemporary with the birth of language.

β. 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. x. 127 The Water, no doubt, is as ancient as the Earth and cotemporary with it.1783 New Hist. Scotl. I. vi. 65 All hills were part of the original creation, and cotemporary with the first foundations of the earth.1879 M. Pattison Milton 3 His eldest son, John Milton, was born, 9th December, 1608, being thus exactly cotemporary with Lord Clarendon.

4. Of or characteristic of the present time; modern; (esp. of furniture, clothing, etc.) having modern, as distinct from traditional, features or styling; (sometimes) spec. designating music, architecture, etc., which makes use of new, often experimental, ideas and techniques.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adjective] > modern

modern1585

new-schoolish1844

New World1847

latter day1850

contemporary1859

unantiquated1859

todayish1864

contemporaneous1871

modernistic1878

presentist1878

up to date1888

down to date1893

up-with-the-times1893

de nos jours1909

up to the minute1909

chromium-plate1924

chromium-plated1924

contempo1944

now1955

New Wave1960

nouveau1974

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > modern and post-modern

modern1820

contemporary1859

postmodern1916

1859 tr. T. Gautier in N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 223 Unhappily, we have no contemporary art [Fr. il n'y a pas de peintres contemporains]; the artists who, as we fancy, live in our times, belong in reality to epochs that are for ever past.

1887 Morning Bull. (Rockhampton, Queensland) 26 Feb. 8/4 I am not very contemporary, I cannot enter into competition with these younger men.

1925 A. Huxley Those Barren Leaves i. i. 4 A frock that was at once old-fashioned and tremendously contemporary.

1949 Archit. Rev. 106 315 Flats..are the form in which contemporary design is making the strongest impact on the urban scene.

1991 CD Rev. Oct. 29/3 I enjoy contemporary music a great deal, and what I have found is that after playing all these avant-garde pieces.., where your technique is absolutely stretched to the limit, everything else becomes so much easier!

2015 Radio Times 22 Aug. (South/West ed.) 18/1 One of the biggest names in contemporary art to be influenced by pop is the American Jeff Koons.

B. n.

1. A person living in, or thing existing in, the same era or period as another or others. Frequently with of (also occasionally to) or possessive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [noun] > contemporary

contemporany?a1475

contemporant1577

time-fellow1577

age mate1582

contemporana1600

coeval1605

coetane1610

collateral1614

contemporary1614

concurrent1622

coequal1631

contemporanean1633

coetanean1636

contemporista1641

temporary1649

synchronist1716

yealing1728

fellow1844

age-fellow1845

α.

1614 E. Grimeston in tr. P. Matthieu Hist. Lewis XI Index sig. Ffff5/1 His fauorites and Contemporaries.

1685 P. Rycaut tr. Platina Lives Popes 24 There are some who make Pinytus..and Herodian the Grammarian Contemporaries to our Bishop Soter.

1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. *A^v From Chaucer I was led to think on Boccace, who was..his Contemporary.

1822 N. Amer. Rev. July 45 This colony would have shared the fate of its contemporary at Sagadehoc, but for the Superior mildness of the climate of South Virginia.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 3 The comic poet Alexis, a younger contemporary of Plato.

1939 Rev. Eng. Stud. 15 429 Dozens of satires were launched yearly at Byron by contemporaries envious of his literary success.

1988 Pop. Mech. Feb. 60/2 The new exterior still preserves the grace and proportions that have made this car a perennial favorite while bringing its aerodynamics and detailing up to date with its contemporaries.

2015 Craft Arts Internat. 93 88/1 He still stands head and shoulders above not just his contemporaries but all other painters.

β. 1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 479 Pope Iohn the 21^th, the cotemporary of our Edward the 2^d.1846 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 2) iii. xiii. §7 As novel as the law of gravitation appeared to the cotemporaries of Newton.1933 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Tribune 29 Dec. 5/7 Co-temporaries of the Mayan Scientists of Mexican hills.

2. A newspaper, periodical, etc., published during the same period as another. Sometimes with preceding modifying word indicating the time or frequency of publication, as in evening contemporary, weekly contemporary, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > other types of newspaper

gazette1607

contemporary1670

packet1678

exchange1798

funny paper1837

blanket sheet1839

broadsheet1840

special1861

cocoa press1907

bladder1936

regional1958

electronic paper1967

free1982

1670 C. Merret Accomplisht Physician 78 The London Dispensatory..might well have vyed with any of its cotemporaries, for excellent and select Compositions.

1782 European Mag. & London Rev. July Introd. As our Magazine was dearer, it should also be better than either of our contemporaries.

1836 J. Grant Great Metropolis II. iii. 157 Its circulation for very many years far exceeded that of any of its contemporaries.

1890 Lancet 5 Apr. 764/1 An evening contemporary recently contained a short article reflecting on medical students and their lack of reverence for the dead.

1942 Illustr. London News 29 Aug. 226/1 As the Editor of our contemporary points out, both [these objects] are vital to this country's security.

1991 Independent on Sunday 18 Aug. (Business section) 36/1 The sternest critic of the earlier decision was our esteemed contemporary, The Wall Street Journal.

3. A person of approximately the same age as another or others.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [noun] > coevality or equality in age > of the same age (with)

even-oldOE

equal1596

coeval1656

contemporary1678

1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Epistles ix. 72 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) When I call Claranus my School-fellow, I need not say any thing more of his Age; having told you, that He, and I, were Cotemporaries.

1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper i. i. 8 I knew his Father; we were Contemporaries, and Fellow-Wenchers in our Youth.

1742 T. Gray Let. 27 May in Corr. (1971) I. 210 I shall see Mr. ** and his Wife, nay, and his Child too... Is it not odd to consider one's Cotemporaries in the grave light of Husband and Father?

1887 tr. F. F. von Beust Mem. II. xli. 324 I have with few exceptions survived, often by many years, my contemporaries at school and at the university.

1920 Spectator 7 Aug. 177/1 The following incident in the Oxford life of my old contemporary Paravicini (we were born in the same year..) may be of interest to you.

2008 Daily Mail (Nexis) 28 Aug. 57 I see her contemporaries, her school friends, out with their children and it hurts afresh knowing Nina can never have that.

4. With the. That which is contemporary (in senses A. 1a and A. 4).

ΚΠ

1932 N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 468/2 The sense of the contemporary has deadened the sense of continuous relationship.

1956 ‘R. Crompton’ Matty & Dearingroydes i. 12 The little sitting-room..with its ‘subtle blending of the contemporary and the period’.

1994 E. Freidson Professionalism Reborn vi. 95 The contemporary is by definition what is only just being experienced in the knife-edge of the present.

2018 Watford Observer (Nexis) 23 Apr. The production mixes the classical and contemporary to distil the essence of Shakespeare's comedy.

5. Contemporary or modern music, dance, furniture, etc. Cf. sense A. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity > something that is modern

modern1735

modernism1737

modernity1753

contemporary1962

1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File xxx. 190 It was a ‘tasteful’ piece of contemporary; natural wood-finish doors, stainless steel windows and venetian blinds everywhere.

1990 Opera Now May 102 (advt.) From exquisite recordings of mediaeval music to symphonies, concerti, opera and contemporary—we cater for them all.

2018 Daily Globe (Worthington, Minnesota) (Nexis) 12 Sept. She is also enrolled in dance classes at Shining Fame Performance, where she practices ballet, jazz, contemporary, tap and hip-hop.

Compounds

C1. Forming complementary and parasynthetic adjectives, as contemporary-looking, contemporary-minded, contemporary-styled, etc.

ΚΠ

1920 Polit. Sci. Q. 35 487 The general economic and political education of the individual who desires to be truly contemporary-minded.

1921 W. L. Sperry Disciplines of Liberty viii. 136 They saw before them a much alive and entirely contemporary-looking boy, sprawled out in his basket chair before a cheerful fire.

1959 H. Hobson Mission House Murder xvii. 111 An attractive, contemporary-styled bungalow.

1998 Urbanite Jan. 5/1 Johann de Meij's The Big Apple, a contemporary-sounding but accessible love letter to New York.

2003 Time Out N.Y. 4 Dec. 65/4 The shapes look digitally rendered..which makes De Keyser's work contemporary-looking.

C2.

contemporary dance n. a style of expressive dance which developed in the mid 20th cent., originally combining elements of both classical ballet and modern dance, now encompassing a wide variety of dance styles.In quot. 1935 perhaps not a fixed collocation.

ΚΠ

1935 Jrnl. Health & Physical Educ. 6 iv. 12/1 In the contemporary dance, movement stripped of all its accessories is the vital factor.

1937 Jrnl. Health & Physical Educ. Oct. 499/1 In addition to customary technical classes, the program will include..History and Philosophy of the Dance, and Trends in Contemporary Dance.

1995 Independent 27 Feb. 20/5 Dancers..want to do contemporary dance, they think Swan Lake is nothing to do with them.

2009 Daily Tel. 2 July 33/1 Pina Bausch..was the most influential figure in European contemporary dance for the past 30 years, creating a much-imitated fusion of radical theatre, surreal art, sexual drama and danced body language, known as Tanztheater.

contemporary R&B n. Music any of various styles of popular music of African-American origin, typically drawing on elements of soul, funk, disco, hip hop, and electronic dance music, and featuring a smooth vocal style. Cf. R&B n. 2.In this specific sense the term is chiefly used as a means of distinguishing the more recent genre described here and at R&B n. 2 from the genre of rhythm and blues (see R&B n. 1). Earlier use as an unfixed collocation is also attested, simply denoting current forms of rhythm and blues (see for example quot. 1967).

ΚΠ

1967 Crawdaddy May 41 This is a solid album, and would be worth getting if you're a Little Richard fan or just a fan of contemporary R&B.]

1985 Face Dec. Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, and Monte Moir have of course gone on to be among the most ubiquitous production teams in contemporary R&B.

1992 Option July 98/2 The music..is a stripped-down mix of hip-hop, rock freakout and contemporary R&B.

2018 Wall St Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 1 Mar. Americans like Maxwell, Erykah Badu and D'Angelo infused contemporary R&B with a healthy dose of classic lyricism and soulful melody.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	contemporary
释义	contemporaryadj.n. Brit. /kənˈtɛmp(ə)r(ər)i/, U.S. /kənˈtɛmpəˌrɛri/ Forms: α. 1600s contemporarie, 1600s– contemporary, 1900s– contemp'ry (nonstandard). β. 1600s– cotemporary (now rare and nonstandard), 1700s co-tempory. Origin: Probably a borrowing from Latin, combined with English elements. Etymons: con- prefix, Latin tempor- , tempus , -ary suffix². Etymology: Probably < con- prefix + classical Latin tempor-, tempus time (see temporal adj.¹ and n.¹) + -ary suffix². Compare earlier temporary adj. (which differs considerably in meaning). Compare earlier contemporan adj. contemporanean adj., and also later contemporal adj. and contemporaneous adj. and the Latin forms cited at those entries. With use as noun compare -ary suffix¹.Compare post-classical Latin contemporarius (noun) person living at the same time as another (15th cent. in a British source; rare), French †contemporaire , adjective and noun (late 17th cent.; probably < English; rare). Specific forms. The β. forms show remodelling after co- prefix. In the 18th cent. they became frequent, although already stigmatized in the late 17th cent. by Bentley as ‘a downright barbarism’ ( R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed., 1699) Pref. p.lxxxvi). A. adj. 1. Belonging to the same era or period as another person, thing, or event; living, existing, or occurring together in a particular period; coexisting. a. Without preposition. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adjective] > contemporary or belonging to the same period contemporary1614 contemporal1621 contemporanean1627 contemporant1675 α. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. v. §6 51 The same being alreadie set downe, though scatteringly.., among other the Contemporarie occurrents of the Easterne Emperors. 1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 220 Asserting, that contemporary writers received his works with an ungrateful silence. 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. Pref. 7 Immense archives of contemporary documents. 1959 Eng. Hist. Rev. 74 289 Amari discounted too much contemporary or near contemporary evidence in his anxiety to stress the spontaneous nature of the rising. 2015 J. Rubenstein First Crusade i. 2 A contemporary historian named Guibert of Nogent (ca. 1060–ca. 1125) viewed the First Crusade as..‘a new path to salvation’. β. 1698 Earl of Orrery Dr. Bentley's Diss. Examin'd 167 Allowing then that Solon and Thespis were Cotemporary.1782 R. Orme Hist. Fragm. Mogul Empire (1783) 104 We do not find in the cotemporary accounts of that period, any mention of the Rajah of Chitore.1861 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. iv. 129 If Leibniz..had been understood and supported by cotemporary scholars, the science of language..might have been established a century earlier.1945 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 32 81 Cotemporary publications containing incidental allusions to the occurrences of the day. b. With with. ΚΠ α. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxiii. §3 564 Then must these two be judged contemporarie with Hosea and Amos, who liued vnder King Vzzia. 1774 J. Carr tr. Lucian Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 182 He was contemporary with Hercules, by whom Troy was first taken, in the age of our fathers. 1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 66 Writers contemporary with the events they write of. 1954 N. W. DeWitt Epicurus & his Philos. i. 20 Men contemporary with Epicurus were incapable of recognizing him as a moral reformer. 2001 Hist. Today Nov. 20/1 Had large animals become extinct, and if so, had they once been contemporary with people? β. 1642 P. Heylyn Hist. Episcopacie i. iii. 78 So much for the Bishops of Antiochia, which lived and were co-temporary with the Apostles.1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. vii. 238 Events subsequent and cotemporary with the Miracles.1893 Meehan's Monthly June 84/1 James Rowley, a dramatist co-temporary with Shakespeare.1914 Living Church 21 Mar. 740/1 Many obscure and little-known manuscripts and records, both co-temporary with the events and within the generation following.1954 Clogher Rec. 1 12 Dr. Tyrrell was co-temporary with Blessed Oliver Plunket. c. With to, †unto. ΚΠ 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. v. 256 The Bishop of Rome, who was contemporary to Irenaeus. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xii. 251 Galen who was contemporary unto Plutarch. View more context for this quotation 1762 T. Smollett in Crit. Rev. May 437 He may have copied some writer cotemporary to that great man. 1839 C. H. Parry Parl. & Council Eng. Pref. 14 The Second Class of Authentic Documents..consists of the Historians who were contemporary to, or shortly followed, the events which they relate. 1931 5th Rep. Pennsylvania Hist. Comm. 124 It is too early to even suggest the possibility that these culturally unknown people are contemporary to the glyphs. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 June 17/1 Tom's letters were evidently more or less contemporary to Virginia's. 2. Happening or taking place simultaneously; occurring together at the same time; simultaneous. Frequently in mathematical or scientific contexts. Now rare.Later evidence for the form co-temporary frequently makes reference to, or paraphrases, the ideas of David Hume; see quot. 1739 at β. and cf. e.g. quot. 2009 at β. . ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adjective] altogether?c1400 concurrent1495 contemporana1500 unison1582 coincident1598 coetaneal1614 coactivea1616 contemporal1621 synchronisticalc1624 coetanean1625 coetaneous1649 coinstantanean1652 synchronical1652 simultal1654 contemporary1656 contemporaneous1659 simultaneousa1660 coevous1660 synchronal1660 coexistent1662 implicit1662 synchronous1669 coexistinga1676 synchronistic1685 coeval1714 contemporany1721 synchronizinga1727 joint1765 coinstantaneous1768 consentaneous1775 coinciding1786 conterminating1805 synchronic1833 coincidental1845 parallel1859 homochronous1876 monochronic1905 co-occurring1951 co-occurrent1954 α. 1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. ii. xiii. 110 All the parts of them [i.e. lines] which are contemporary [L. contemporaneae], that is, which are described in the same time, will be Two to Two in Geometrical Proportion. 1760 F. Maseres Elements Plane Trigonom. 352 The first increment of OP is not..exactly equal to the contemporary decrement of AM. 1806 C. Hutton Course Math. (ed. 5) II. 290 Contemporary Fluents, or Contemporary Fluxions, are such as flow together, or for the same time. 1899 Elements Civil Engin. IV. 831 Professor Talbot gives the following as the ratio of storm water to contemporary rainfall. β. 1692 T. Taylor tr. G. Daniel Voy. World Cartesius iv. 247 Division was made by Motion, and yet cotemporary with the same Motion.1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. iii. 138 If one cause were co-temporary with its effect, and this effect with its effect, and so on, 'tis plain there wou'd be no such thing as succession, and all objects must be co-existent.1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. III. xxxi. 320 The number of cotemporary turns of a wheel and pinion are reciprocally proportional to their number of teeth.2009 Mind 118 686 When we encounter a taste or a smell co-existing and co-temporary with related spatial perceptions (e.g. the colour and shape of a fig), our imagination..leads us to attribute location to it. 3. Having existed or lived from the same date; equal in age, coeval. Frequently with with. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [adjective] > coeval or going back to the same date contemporanean1575 coetaneous1608 coetanean1625 contemporaneous1645 coetany1649 coeval1652 coeve1659 coevous1660 contemporary1663 connascent1805 connate1819 isochronous1895 α. 1663 A. Cowley Verses Several Occasions 48 A neighbouring wood born with himself he sees, And loves his old contemporary trees. 1887 Leisure Hour June 395/1 To hear some persons speak, you might think that the different breeds of dog were contemporary with the creation. 1987 Yearbk. Eng. Stud. 17 62 Peers who are exactly contemporary in age or level of attainment. 2011 N. P. de Carvalho TRIPS Regime of Trademarks & Design (ed. 2) 46 Signs identifying merchants and fixing their liability to commercial contracts are contemporary with the birth of language. β. 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. x. 127 The Water, no doubt, is as ancient as the Earth and cotemporary with it.1783 New Hist. Scotl. I. vi. 65 All hills were part of the original creation, and cotemporary with the first foundations of the earth.1879 M. Pattison Milton 3 His eldest son, John Milton, was born, 9th December, 1608, being thus exactly cotemporary with Lord Clarendon. 4. Of or characteristic of the present time; modern; (esp. of furniture, clothing, etc.) having modern, as distinct from traditional, features or styling; (sometimes) spec. designating music, architecture, etc., which makes use of new, often experimental, ideas and techniques. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adjective] > modern modern1585 new-schoolish1844 New World1847 latter day1850 contemporary1859 unantiquated1859 todayish1864 contemporaneous1871 modernistic1878 presentist1878 up to date1888 down to date1893 up-with-the-times1893 de nos jours1909 up to the minute1909 chromium-plate1924 chromium-plated1924 contempo1944 now1955 New Wave1960 nouveau1974 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > modern and post-modern modern1820 contemporary1859 postmodern1916 1859 tr. T. Gautier in N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 223 Unhappily, we have no contemporary art [Fr. il n'y a pas de peintres contemporains]; the artists who, as we fancy, live in our times, belong in reality to epochs that are for ever past. 1887 Morning Bull. (Rockhampton, Queensland) 26 Feb. 8/4 I am not very contemporary, I cannot enter into competition with these younger men. 1925 A. Huxley Those Barren Leaves i. i. 4 A frock that was at once old-fashioned and tremendously contemporary. 1949 Archit. Rev. 106 315 Flats..are the form in which contemporary design is making the strongest impact on the urban scene. 1991 CD Rev. Oct. 29/3 I enjoy contemporary music a great deal, and what I have found is that after playing all these avant-garde pieces.., where your technique is absolutely stretched to the limit, everything else becomes so much easier! 2015 Radio Times 22 Aug. (South/West ed.) 18/1 One of the biggest names in contemporary art to be influenced by pop is the American Jeff Koons. B. n. 1. A person living in, or thing existing in, the same era or period as another or others. Frequently with of (also occasionally to) or possessive. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [noun] > contemporary contemporany?a1475 contemporant1577 time-fellow1577 age mate1582 contemporana1600 coeval1605 coetane1610 collateral1614 contemporary1614 concurrent1622 coequal1631 contemporanean1633 coetanean1636 contemporista1641 temporary1649 synchronist1716 yealing1728 fellow1844 age-fellow1845 α. 1614 E. Grimeston in tr. P. Matthieu Hist. Lewis XI Index sig. Ffff5/1 His fauorites and Contemporaries. 1685 P. Rycaut tr. Platina Lives Popes 24 There are some who make Pinytus..and Herodian the Grammarian Contemporaries to our Bishop Soter. 1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. A^v From Chaucer I was led to think on Boccace, who was..his Contemporary. 1822 N. Amer. Rev.* July 45 This colony would have shared the fate of its contemporary at Sagadehoc, but for the Superior mildness of the climate of South Virginia. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 3 The comic poet Alexis, a younger contemporary of Plato. 1939 Rev. Eng. Stud. 15 429 Dozens of satires were launched yearly at Byron by contemporaries envious of his literary success. 1988 Pop. Mech. Feb. 60/2 The new exterior still preserves the grace and proportions that have made this car a perennial favorite while bringing its aerodynamics and detailing up to date with its contemporaries. 2015 Craft Arts Internat. 93 88/1 He still stands head and shoulders above not just his contemporaries but all other painters. β. 1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 479 Pope Iohn the 21^th, the cotemporary of our Edward the 2^d.1846 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 2) iii. xiii. §7 As novel as the law of gravitation appeared to the cotemporaries of Newton.1933 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Tribune 29 Dec. 5/7 Co-temporaries of the Mayan Scientists of Mexican hills. 2. A newspaper, periodical, etc., published during the same period as another. Sometimes with preceding modifying word indicating the time or frequency of publication, as in evening contemporary, weekly contemporary, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > other types of newspaper gazette1607 contemporary1670 packet1678 exchange1798 funny paper1837 blanket sheet1839 broadsheet1840 special1861 cocoa press1907 bladder1936 regional1958 electronic paper1967 free1982 1670 C. Merret Accomplisht Physician 78 The London Dispensatory..might well have vyed with any of its cotemporaries, for excellent and select Compositions. 1782 European Mag. & London Rev. July Introd. As our Magazine was dearer, it should also be better than either of our contemporaries. 1836 J. Grant Great Metropolis II. iii. 157 Its circulation for very many years far exceeded that of any of its contemporaries. 1890 Lancet 5 Apr. 764/1 An evening contemporary recently contained a short article reflecting on medical students and their lack of reverence for the dead. 1942 Illustr. London News 29 Aug. 226/1 As the Editor of our contemporary points out, both [these objects] are vital to this country's security. 1991 Independent on Sunday 18 Aug. (Business section) 36/1 The sternest critic of the earlier decision was our esteemed contemporary, The Wall Street Journal. 3. A person of approximately the same age as another or others. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > simultaneity or contemporaneousness > [noun] > coevality or equality in age > of the same age (with) even-oldOE equal1596 coeval1656 contemporary1678 1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Epistles ix. 72 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) When I call Claranus my School-fellow, I need not say any thing more of his Age; having told you, that He, and I, were Cotemporaries. 1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper i. i. 8 I knew his Father; we were Contemporaries, and Fellow-Wenchers in our Youth. 1742 T. Gray Let. 27 May in Corr. (1971) I. 210 I shall see Mr. ** and his Wife, nay, and his Child too... Is it not odd to consider one's Cotemporaries in the grave light of Husband and Father? 1887 tr. F. F. von Beust Mem. II. xli. 324 I have with few exceptions survived, often by many years, my contemporaries at school and at the university. 1920 Spectator 7 Aug. 177/1 The following incident in the Oxford life of my old contemporary Paravicini (we were born in the same year..) may be of interest to you. 2008 Daily Mail (Nexis) 28 Aug. 57 I see her contemporaries, her school friends, out with their children and it hurts afresh knowing Nina can never have that. 4. With the. That which is contemporary (in senses A. 1a and A. 4). ΚΠ 1932 N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 468/2 The sense of the contemporary has deadened the sense of continuous relationship. 1956 ‘R. Crompton’ Matty & Dearingroydes i. 12 The little sitting-room..with its ‘subtle blending of the contemporary and the period’. 1994 E. Freidson Professionalism Reborn vi. 95 The contemporary is by definition what is only just being experienced in the knife-edge of the present. 2018 Watford Observer (Nexis) 23 Apr. The production mixes the classical and contemporary to distil the essence of Shakespeare's comedy. 5. Contemporary or modern music, dance, furniture, etc. Cf. sense A. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > modernity > something that is modern modern1735 modernism1737 modernity1753 contemporary1962 1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File xxx. 190 It was a ‘tasteful’ piece of contemporary; natural wood-finish doors, stainless steel windows and venetian blinds everywhere. 1990 Opera Now May 102 (advt.) From exquisite recordings of mediaeval music to symphonies, concerti, opera and contemporary—we cater for them all. 2018 Daily Globe (Worthington, Minnesota) (Nexis) 12 Sept. She is also enrolled in dance classes at Shining Fame Performance, where she practices ballet, jazz, contemporary, tap and hip-hop. Compounds C1. Forming complementary and parasynthetic adjectives, as contemporary-looking, contemporary-minded, contemporary-styled, etc. ΚΠ 1920 Polit. Sci. Q. 35 487 The general economic and political education of the individual who desires to be truly contemporary-minded. 1921 W. L. Sperry Disciplines of Liberty viii. 136 They saw before them a much alive and entirely contemporary-looking boy, sprawled out in his basket chair before a cheerful fire. 1959 H. Hobson Mission House Murder xvii. 111 An attractive, contemporary-styled bungalow. 1998 Urbanite Jan. 5/1 Johann de Meij's The Big Apple, a contemporary-sounding but accessible love letter to New York. 2003 Time Out N.Y. 4 Dec. 65/4 The shapes look digitally rendered..which makes De Keyser's work contemporary-looking. C2. contemporary dance n. a style of expressive dance which developed in the mid 20th cent., originally combining elements of both classical ballet and modern dance, now encompassing a wide variety of dance styles.In quot. 1935 perhaps not a fixed collocation. ΚΠ 1935 Jrnl. Health & Physical Educ. 6 iv. 12/1 In the contemporary dance, movement stripped of all its accessories is the vital factor. 1937 Jrnl. Health & Physical Educ. Oct. 499/1 In addition to customary technical classes, the program will include..History and Philosophy of the Dance, and Trends in Contemporary Dance. 1995 Independent 27 Feb. 20/5 Dancers..want to do contemporary dance, they think Swan Lake is nothing to do with them. 2009 Daily Tel. 2 July 33/1 Pina Bausch..was the most influential figure in European contemporary dance for the past 30 years, creating a much-imitated fusion of radical theatre, surreal art, sexual drama and danced body language, known as Tanztheater. contemporary R&B n. Music any of various styles of popular music of African-American origin, typically drawing on elements of soul, funk, disco, hip hop, and electronic dance music, and featuring a smooth vocal style. Cf. R&B n. 2.In this specific sense the term is chiefly used as a means of distinguishing the more recent genre described here and at R&B n. 2 from the genre of rhythm and blues (see R&B n. 1). Earlier use as an unfixed collocation is also attested, simply denoting current forms of rhythm and blues (see for example quot. 1967). ΚΠ 1967 Crawdaddy May 41 This is a solid album, and would be worth getting if you're a Little Richard fan or just a fan of contemporary R&B.] 1985 Face Dec. Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, and Monte Moir have of course gone on to be among the most ubiquitous production teams in contemporary R&B. 1992 Option July 98/2 The music..is a stripped-down mix of hip-hop, rock freakout and contemporary R&B. 2018 Wall St Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 1 Mar. Americans like Maxwell, Erykah Badu and D'Angelo infused contemporary R&B with a healthy dose of classic lyricism and soulful melody. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1614
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