contemporary

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /kənˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹə.ɹi/|/kənˈtɛm.p(ə.)ɹi/    美 /kənˈtɛm.pəˌɹɛɹ.i/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone or something belonging to the same time period (as someone or something else)
    — Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.
  2. Something existing at the same time.
  3. Something existing at the same time.; A rival newspaper or magazine. dated
    — Annexation therefore was inevitable; but (as I have said above) it was not necessarily of prime importance in our national policy, and there has been no need to exaggerate—as I fear many of our contemporaries have exaggerated— […]
形容词 adj.
  1. 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’).
    — We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.

词形变化

more contemporary comparative most contemporary superlative contemporaries plural

词汇关系

近义词
coetaneous coeval contemporaneous coincident contemporary cotemporal cotemporaneous
反义词
noncontemporary uncontemporary
上位词
coexistent
衍生词
adult contemporary contemporarily contemporariness contemporary circus contemporary gospel contemporary R&B contemporize hot adult contemporary noncontemporary penecontemporary precontemporary rhythmic contemporary ultracontemporary uncontemporary urban contemporary
相关词
penecontemporary present

词源

词源 1
From Medieval Latin contemporārius, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + temporārius, an adjective derived from tempus (“time”).
词源 2
From Medieval Latin contemporārius, from Latin con- (“with, together”) + temporārius, an adjective derived from tempus (“time”).
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