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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
contemporary
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 examples of maps date from 1602 and there are contemporary accounts of mapping and the use of maps from considerably earlier.
▪ According to a contemporary account, the attendance figure was about 20, 000.
▪ Unfortunately, there is no contemporary account of the setting up of the archdiocese of Lichfield.
art
▪ With contemporary art, there is not always a right or wrong answer.
▪ Since its opening in 1978 the gallery has been seen as the main centre for contemporary art in the city.
▪ It features a collection of contemporary art that, for the most part, is bad.
▪ The emphasis of Rizzoli's spring list is definitely on contemporary art.
▪ As it turns. out, I know a deal about contemporary art.
▪ In June 1991, the Jeu de Paume reopened its doors, this time as an exhibition centre devoted to contemporary art.
artist
▪ Through photographic images we see a few of the attempts by contemporary artists to find the real face.
▪ You name your favorite contemporary artist and odds are they are involved.
▪ The Eighties were an important decade for sculpture when many contemporary artists turned to three-dimensional work.
▪ Nevertheless, many contemporary artists were having their drawings and paintings photographed rather than engraved and sold in different formats.
▪ She saw feet sinking into the thick pile of the new rugs whose abstract patterns evoked the work of contemporary artists.
▪ March 2-April 1: Uncommercial Art by Commercial Artists, a group exhibit featuring seven major contemporary artists.
▪ The gallery is based in Trinity College and shows work by contemporary artists from both Ireland and abroad.
▪ He had a particular interest in works by contemporary artists and was a pioneer in the development of artist-in-residence programs.
culture
▪ What is evident is that the age of electronic records opens numerous possibilities that will enrich the understanding of contemporary culture.
▪ We considered media education largely as part of the exploration of contemporary culture, alongside more traditional literary texts.
▪ Pupils should have the opportunity to apply their critical faculties to these major parts of contemporary culture.
▪ The exhibition became a milestone in feminist analysis of contemporary culture.
▪ Some instinctive appreciation of this fact may have given rise to the mystique which surrounded £40 a year in contemporary culture.
dance
▪ Over a three-month period, opera attracted 1 percent of the population but ballet and contemporary dance fewer than 1 percent.
history
▪ Unfortunately, never in contemporary history have economic sanctions felled a regime, no matter how weak.
▪ I do not need to detain the House with a contemporary history of that sad state.
▪ Tuggener charted a contemporary history that was on the move.
▪ Between the years 1988 and 1991 I was engaged in researching a contemporary history of Venice.
▪ There is a particular problem with contemporary history.
▪ The emphasis is on modern and contemporary history.
issue
▪ At Level Two students will plan and undertake an investigation into a contemporary issue of their choice.
▪ What are the implications for the state of such contemporary issues as security, regionalism and the international character of the economy?
▪ Some films show their makers grappling with contemporary issues, without always the level of visual inventiveness applied elsewhere.
▪ Some alluded to specifically contemporary issues.
life
▪ Delacroix's journal is articulate, concerned with other arts as well as painting, besides containing much comment on contemporary life.
▪ Printed in the shrill neons of commercial art, these leering posters document the slick, creeping hucksterism of contemporary life.
▪ You can also overcome one of the worst problems in contemporary life, that of cold coffee.
▪ He introduced characters and problems from contemporary life such as arranging suitable marriages.
▪ While there were fewer portrayals of contemporary life than in Soviet art, not all western artists looked inwards.
▪ They were also too crude to cope with the complexity of contemporary life in Britain.
music
▪ One of the most disliked is contemporary music.
▪ Particularly if it means introducing contemporary music to Angelenos.
▪ He has a keen interest in contemporary music and is a founder member of the ensemble Capricorn.
▪ What the future entails is some very contemporary music slipped into concerts featuring lovable old favorites.
▪ I think we've got aesthetics to offer that aren't around in contemporary music.
▪ Mass Media: As of yet, there is no national contemporary music paper in the Soviet Union.
▪ It is also useful for some contemporary music where a light, jazz-style accompaniment is required.
society
▪ It is this which he takes as the key to an understanding of contemporary society, and of culture itself.
▪ Although the Stuart-Meredith growth charts have survived for 30 years, their usefulness in contemporary society is limited.
▪ But the health and wealth of contemporary society blinds us to the decadence and moral sickness under our noses.
▪ The new religious revival is fueled by a revulsion with the corruptions of contemporary society.
▪ This is not to deny, of course, that crime and violence in contemporary society is an important social reality.
▪ Much of contemporary society seems disadvantaged by a management view that extends not much beyond immediate profit preoccupations.
▪ Undoubtedly teachers fulfil an important function in contemporary society.
▪ Religion is not compartmentalized, but a living part of contemporary society, reflecting where it is and what its potentials are.
woman
▪ It is the biggest visual production ever printed on the work of contemporary women artists in this country.
▪ Lest we begin feeling too sorry for these fellows, consider the plight of the contemporary woman.
▪ Fantasy has continued to interest several other contemporary women writers, such as Emma Tennant and Angela Carter, in this way.
▪ Prescriptives is for the contemporary woman who demands the same high standards from her beauty products as she expects from her wardrobe.
works
▪ It is good for children to respond to good contemporary works, written both for children and for adults.
▪ In 1856 the Bissons were reproducing and exhibiting photographs of contemporary works of art.
▪ Yet these are undeniably contemporary works.
▪ Western interest has increased since glasnost, but has concentrated on the more contemporary works of the 1970s and 1980s.
▪ The Skopos Challenge exhibits 150 contemporary works selected by leading quilters, showing bed and cot quilts and wall hangings.
▪ Indeed, the Rue-des-Bois landscapes already have much in common with Braque's contemporary works.
world
▪ In the 1990s it's a symbol of the contemporary world.
▪ The contemporary world is not entirely eschewed; the baby still wears his romper suit.
▪ To what extent is it possible to align states and nations in the contemporary world?
▪ Record retention will lead to a skewed vision of the contemporary world.
▪ The problems of ethno-nationalism and of multiple nations within a single state are endemic in the contemporary world.
▪ The essential effect of such knowledge was to alienate Chesterton and Williamson from the contemporary world.
▪ Comparative political systems in the contemporary world.
writer
▪ These, however, are indicated in scores and livrets and noted by contemporary writers on opera performance.
▪ Such consolidation was indeed commended by contemporary writers on agriculture.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Contemporary Indian cinema has its roots in folk culture.
▪ Composers like Philip Glass have made contemporary music more popular.
▪ I'm not very impressed by the works of many contemporary artists.
▪ The cafe's decor is clean and contemporary.
▪ the declining importance of religion in contemporary societies
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It is arguably the greatest source of violence and death in the contemporary political world.
▪ It was strongly influenced by the contemporary art movement known as Constructivism, which was being energetically pursued.
▪ Since its opening in 1978 the gallery has been seen as the main centre for contemporary art in the city.
▪ The methods available are constantly increasing in number and their utility is greater as the complexity of contemporary processes is revealed.
▪ This latter was especially troublesome because the contemporary theory dismissed it as self-correcting.
▪ Thus, contemporary ontological debates relating to the photograph are divergent.
▪ To put the same observation in more contemporary terms, families learn about what marriage means from their experience of marriage.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
young
▪ Other parts of my argument derive from Malinowski, Mauss and Levi-Strauss, as well as from various of my younger contemporaries.
▪ But because it was idealistic it was the more persuasive when he preached it to his young contemporaries.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Atkins is still working, long after many of his contemporaries have retired.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But this was not clear to contemporaries.
▪ More than almost any of her predecessors or contemporaries, Pires underlines this generic relationship.
▪ The following portrait sketches by contemporaries are, there-fore, of special interest.
▪ The music, by Brecht's contemporaries Weill and Eisler, adds atmosphere and reinforces the strong protest against tyranny and persecution.
▪ The problem was considered particularly vexing because, as the research of contemporaries showed, it affected middle class women most.
▪ This, they suggest, can be seen in the Tagar culture, a contemporary of the Pazyryk tombs.
▪ To most of his contemporaries Blake was a nutter or simply inept.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contemporary

Contemporary \Con*tem"po*ra*ry\, a. [Pref. con- + L. temporarius of belonging to time, tempus time. See Temporal, and cf. 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.

  2. Of the same age; coeval.

    A grove born with himself he sees, And loves his old contemporary trees.
    --Cowley.

Contemporary

Contemporary \Con*tem"po*ra*ry\, n.; pl. Contemporaries.

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

  2. a person of nearly the same age as another.

    Syn: coeval.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
contemporary

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.

contemporary

"one who lives at the same time as another," 1630s, originally cotemporary, from co- + temporary; modified by influence of contemporary (adj.). Replacing native time-fellow (1570s).

Wiktionary
contemporary

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.

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WordNet
contemporary

  1. adj. characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine" [syn: modern-day]

  2. belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders" [syn: present-day(a)]

  3. 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" [syn: contemporaneous]

  4. n. a person of nearly the same age as another [syn: coeval]

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Wikipedia
Contemporary (magazine)

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 Gordon and Breach Publishing (G+B), and produced four issues under the editorship of Lynne Green, Spencer's deputy.

The magazine finally found its feet as a committed contemporary art publication in 1996 under the editorial control of Keith Patrick and with the change of title to Contemporary Visual Arts, later abbreviated to CVA. During this period the magazine achieved sales of nearly 20,000, including 5,000 subscribers, with distribution mainly in the UK, Europe, the States and Australia. Its base at this time was the former Peek Freans biscuit factory in Bermondsey, London, the site of several key early exhibitions of the YBA generation.

With the collapse of the G+B parent company in 2001, the title was acquired by Art:21 and reappeared as Contemporary in January 2002 although no longer with an exclusive commitment to the visual arts. In 2003 a sister publication, Contemporary 21, was launched. Initially media-focused, with special issues dedicated to painting, sculpture, video art and performance, it would later embrace a wider range of topics, from art collecting to the relationship between visual art and architecture. In 2006 Contemporary published its first Annual, featuring 50 emerging artists nominated by its network of world correspondents. In 2008 the magazine relocated to Panama City, where it ceased publication after failing in an attempt to start a Spanish-language edition.

In May 2009, it was reported that the publisher, Brian Muller, had not paid the magazine's contributing writers for over a year. 1

Contemporary (disambiguation)

Contemporary is the historical period that is immediately relevant to the present and is a certain perspective of modern history.

Contemporary may also refer to:

  • Contemporary philosophy
  • Contemporary art, post-World War II art
  • Contemporary dance, a modern genre of concert dance
  • Contemporary literature, post-World War II literature
  • Contemporary music, post-World War II music
  • Contemporary (magazine), an art magazine
  • Contemporary Records, a jazz record label
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Usage examples of "contemporary".

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.