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Look up: contemporary

  1. Contemporary
    Dating from the period at which the book was published.
    Found on http://www.artbook.co.uk/glossary/

  2. contemporary
    [adj] - characteristic of the present 2. [adj] - belonging to the present time 3. [n] - a person of nearly the same age as another
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Contemporary
    Existing or coming into being at the same period of time; of today or of the present
    Found on http://www.ifla.org/VII/s30/pub/mg1.htm#

  4. Contemporary
    Con·tem'po·ra·ry adjective [ Prefix con- + Latin temporarius of belonging to time, tempus time. See Temporal , and confer Contemporaneous .] 1. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. « This king [ Henry VIII.] was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. Strype ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/146

  5. Contemporary
    Con·tem'po·ra·ry noun ; plural Contemporaries One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/146

  6. contemporary
    modern-day adjective characteristic of the present; `contemporary trends in design`; `the role of computers in modern-day medicine`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. contemporary
    present-day(a) adjective belonging to the present time; `contemporary leaders`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. contemporary
    coeval noun a person of nearly the same age as another
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. contemporary
    adjective occurring in the same period of time; `a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation`; `the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. Contemporary
    `Contemporary` can mean: * In its generic sense, living, occurring, or existing, at the same time; often also used as a synonym for `modern` * Contemporary, an art magazine * Contemporary Records, a record label * Contemporary plc, a software company * Contemporary philosophy, Western philosophy from c. 1960 - present Derived from romantic languages. ConTemp coming from `con tiempo` in spanish. Literraly translating to `with time` [with the ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporar

  11. Contemporary
    • (a.) Of the same age; coeval. • (a.) Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. • (n.) One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  12. contemporary
    contemporary, contemporarily, contemporariness 1. Existing or occurring at, or dating from, the same period of time as something or someone else. 2. In existence now. 3. Distinctively modern in style. 4. Of the same, or approximately the same, age as someone else.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  13. contemporary
    At the same time when an author was writing. The author himself is a contemporary, too.
    Found on http://www.menrath-online.de/glossaryeng

  14. contemporary
    from the same time period
    Found on http://www.eslgold.com/acad_vocab_defini


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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