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A person of nearly the same age as another
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contemporary
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Contemporary was a monthly visual arts magazine based in London . Founded and edited as The Green Book by Keith Spencer as a quarterly publication, it re-emerged under the title Contemporary Art in 1993. On the death of Spencer, the title was acquired by ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from Medieval Latin contemporarius , from Latin com- "with" (see com- ) + temporarius "of time," from tempus "time" (see temporal (v.)). Meaning "modern, characteristic of the present" is from 1866.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contemporary \Con*tem"po*ra*ry\, a. [Pref. con- + L. temporarius of belonging to time, tempus time. See Temporal , and cf. Contemporaneous .] Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. This ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 From the same time period, coexistent in time. 2 modern, of the present age. n. 1 Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another. 2 Something existing at the same time.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES modern/contemporary poetry ▪ She finds modern poetry difficult. recent/modern/contemporary history ▪ The country’s recent history is powerfully told in this film. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN account ▪ Extant ...
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The patriarch, Thomas More Anglesey, Duke of Gunfleet, had been a contemporary, and a mortal rival, of John Comstock, who was the Earl of Epsom and the first great noble backer of the Royal Society.
CHAPTER IV MAGENDIE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES It may be doubted whether any physiologist has ever lived whose cruelty to animals exceeded that which, for a long period, was exercised by Franc,ois Magendie.
To better understand the placement of the dinosaurs within the Archosauria, and their nearest relatives and contemporaries, we need to recall the discussion in Chapter 1 and here take a closer look at the second of these lineages as it relates to the dinosaurs.
Ibn Batlan, a clever physician, was a contemporary of Ibn Ridhwan, and travelled from Baghdad to Egypt only for the purpose of making his acquaintance, but the result does not appear to have been satisfactory to either party.
The contemporaries of Moses and Joshua had beheld with careless indifference the most amazing miracles.
Although Freud has been famously charged with backing away from the cultural implications of this theory, when he proposed the Oedipus complex and thereby transferred the libidinal activity from the parents to the children, we still find the etiology thesis alive and well in contemporary thinking about trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, as evidenced in the work of Judith Herman and Bessel van der Kolk.
Rimbaud, Bocaccio, Petrarch, Voltaire, Goethe and company, are credibly identified as the nicknames of contemporary students.
His contemporary, Berengar of Carpi, professor at Bologna, first did this with marked success, classifying the various tissues as fat, membrane, flesh, nerve, fibre and so forth.
When the French explorers entered it, it was a valley of aboriginal, anarchic individualism, with little movable spots of barbaric communistic timocracy, as Plato would doubtless have classified those migratory, predatory kingdoms of the hundreds of red kings, contemporary with King Donnacona, whom Cartier found on the St.
It is interesting to know that, at this time, Casanova met his famous contemporary, Benjamin Franklin.
Contemporary short story writers push this Chekhovian realization to even more aesthetic extremes.
Ravel is the old clavecinist become contemporary of Scriabine and Strawinsky, the old clavecinist who had seen the projectiles fall at Verdun and lost a dozen friends in the trenches.
He gives Tim cookies while addressing the boxes, exhibiting that ambidextrous bilateral competence so characteristic of contemporary American parents - all boasting hypertrophic corpora callosa, no doubt, could one but see them.
Seeing the premature ruins of contemporary society was creepily post-apocalyptic.
Rylkova suggests, by contemporary scientific discourses on narcissism.