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contemporary

adj
/kənˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹə.ɹi/UK/kənˈtɛm.pəˌɹɛɹ.i/US

Etymology

From Medieval Latin contemporārius, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + temporārius, an adjective derived from tempus (“time”).

  1. derived from con- — “with, together”
  2. borrowed from contemporārius

Definitions

  1. From the same time period, coexistent in time

    From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous.

    • A neighb'ring Wood born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees.

  2. Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’).

  3. Someone or something belonging to the same time period (as someone or something else)

    • Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.
    • The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Something existing at the same time.

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Derived

adult contemporary, contemporarily, contemporariness, contemporary circus, contemporary gospel, contemporary R&B, contemporize, hot adult contemporary, noncontemporary, penecontemporary, precontemporary, rhythmic contemporary, ultracontemporary, uncontemporary, urban contemporary

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at contemporary. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at contemporary. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at contemporary

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA