Definition of Contemporary

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Contemporary

Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.

Of the same age; coeval.

One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.

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Contemporary Quotations

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
Joseph Campbell

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
Gertrude Stein

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
W. H. Auden

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.
David Foster Wallace

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
bell hooks

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
Van Morrison

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.
Angela Davis

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Simone Weil

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Jorge Luis Borges

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Spiro T. Agnew

Contemporary Translations

contemporary in German is Altersgenosse {m}, Zeitgenosse {m}
contemporary in Norwegian is samtidig

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