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Modern (adjective)
Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
“Our online interactive game is a modern approach to teaching about gum disease.”
“Although it was built in the 1600s, the building still has a very modern look.”
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Modern (adjective)
Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.
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Modern (noun)
Someone who lives in modern times.
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Contemporary (adjective)
From the same time period, coexistent in time.
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Contemporary (adjective)
Modern, of the present age.
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Contemporary (noun)
Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.
“Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.”
“The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries.”
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Contemporary (noun)
Something existing at the same time.
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Contemporary (adjective)
living or occurring at the same time
“the event was recorded by a contemporary historian”
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Contemporary (adjective)
dating from the same time
“this series of paintings is contemporary with other works in an early style”
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Contemporary (adjective)
belonging to or occurring in the present
“the tension and complexities of our contemporary society”
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Contemporary (adjective)
following modern ideas in style or design
“contemporary ceramics by leading potters”
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Contemporary (noun)
a person or thing living or existing at the same time as another
“he was a contemporary of Darwin”
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Contemporary (noun)
a person of roughly the same age as another
“my contemporaries at school”