Definition: 1. Belonging to the same time. 2. Belonging to the present time. 3. Occurring in the same period of time. 4. A person of nearly the same age as another.
Use 'contemporary' in a sentence:
1. She patronizes many contemporary British artists.
2. This comedy of contemporary manners is told with compassion and acid humour.
3. I had mentioned that I didn't really like contemporary music.
4. Marlowe was contemporary with Shakespeare.
5. She is very much alive to contemporary issues.
6. Their marriage is a delicate balance between traditional and contemporary values.
7. Contemporary cars are more streamlined than older ones.
8. He was contemporary with the dramatist Congreve.
9. We have no contemporary account of the battle.
10. Contemporary photographs are juxtaposed with a sixteenth century, copper Portuguese mirror.
11. Contemporary artists have followed this tradition to create eggs that speak to the anxieties of our age.
12. The mediocre design of many contemporary buildings can be traced to both clients and architects.
13. It demonstrated vividly the possibility of assimilating contemporary popular music into the symphonic tradition.
14. Kidd and his colleagues chose contemporary works that have won or been finalists for outstanding literary awards.
15. You want contemporary reviews.
16. There are plenty of anecdotes and examples, both historical and contemporary, political and corporate.
17. We have no contemporary account of the battle (= written near the time that it happened) .
18. In contemporary society, it has been a trend for people to surf the Internet for the information they need.
19. We weren't out to design a contemporary utopia.
20. John is a contemporary of mine.
21. The museum contains 6,000 contemporary and modern artworks.
22. It is a place where the ancient and contemporary happily go along on parallel tracks.
23. Such presentations tell us more about contemporary perceptions of the world than about our ancestors.
24. The telephone and the gramophone were contemporary.
25. In the contemporary western world, rapidly changing styles cater to a desire for novelty and individualism.
26. Unfortunately historic American fiction is constantly being used as a stick to beat contemporary British writers with.
27. Only the names are ancient; the characters are modern and contemporary.
28. But finally, some contemporary art historians have challenged this view.
29. He was a contemporary of Freud and may have known him.
30. He gets huge pleasure from ballet and contemporary dance.
31. .a glossary of musical terms found in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
32. Until a few months ago few people outside the arcane world of contemporary music had heard of Gorecki.
33. His prices rank high among those of other contemporary photographers.
34. Contemporary accounts attest to his courage and determination.
35. Perhaps he should have a more updated look, a more contemporary style.
36. Audiences were going to be polled on which of three pieces of contemporary music they liked best.
37. Contemporary African cinema has much to offer in its vitality and freshness.
38. The aim of the course is to help students to comprehend the structure of contemporary political and social systems.
39. Contemporary dance is coming onto the arts scene again after a long fallow period.
40. A lot of contemporary music is virtually inaccessible.
41. Local historians have reconstructed from contemporary descriptions how the hall may have looked in 1300.
42. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre was formed in the 1950s and quickly established itself as a leading exponent of progressive choreography and contemporary dance.
43. The nature of news coverage requires reporters to be well-read on contemporary events.
44. Dickens was contemporary with Thackeray.
45. In its contemporary form, western democracy is held to be ill-suited to our country's cultural traditions.
46. Shakespeare was not contemporary with Dickens.
47. Like most of my contemporaries, I grew up in a vastly different world.
48. She writes a lot of contemporary music for people like Whitney Houston.
49. She and I were contemporaries at college.
50. an exhibition of work by contemporary British artists.
51. He claims that the laws are antiquated and have no contemporary relevance.
52. Dickens was in a different class from most of his contemporaries.
53. Large multinational companies are the chief villains in the demonology of contemporary anticapitalists.
54. It's also what makes contemporary surveillance systems so scary.
55. Contemporary African cinema has much to offer.
56. Loutherbourg, like other contemporary painters, wanted to add the dimension of time to his paintings.
57. Perhaps I'm a bit more experienced about life than my contemporaries.
58. We know, however, that contemporary hunter-gatherer societies control their population in a variety of ways.
59. They still get treated differently from almost every other contemporary British band.
60. Contemporary art has taken a huge leap forward in the last five or six years.
61. .drawing upon official records and the reports of contemporary witnesses.
62. A significant exhibition of contemporary sculpture will be on view at the Portland Gallery.
63. Consumption rather than saving has become the central feature of contemporary societies.
64. He is probably the most reviled man in contemporary theatre.
