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contemporaneous

adj · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /kənˌtɛm.pəˈɹeɪ.ni.əs/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˌkɒn.tɛm-/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /kənˌtɛm.pəˈɹeɪ.ni.əs/
  • rhymes with -eɪniəs
  • CMU ARPABET: K AH0 N T EH2 M P ER0 EY1 N IY0 AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Existing or created in the same period of time.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • Look in other contemporaneous works to see whether that idea was common then.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adjective satellite

Meaning 2

of the same period

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: coetaneous, coeval

Antonyms: none provided

3

adjective satellite

Meaning 3

occurring in the same period of time

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation
  • the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: contemporary

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Latin contemporāneus (“contemporary”), from con- (“with”) + tempus (“time”) + -aneus (“of or pertaining to”) (compare Late Latin temporāneus (“opportune, timely”)).

Across languages

Translations

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مُتَعَاصِر (mutaʕāṣir) — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Arabic: مُتَزَامِن (mutazāmin) — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Arabic: مُتَوَاقِت (mutawāqit) — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Arabic: مُعَاصِر (muʕāṣir) — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Belarusian: адначасо́вы (adnačasóvy) — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Bulgarian: едновременен (ednovremenen) — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Catalan: contemporani — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Chinese Mandarin: 同時 /同时 (tóngshí) — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Finnish: saman aikakauden — existing or created in the same period of time
  • French: contemporain — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Galician: contemporáneo — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Georgian: თანამედროვე (tanamedrove) — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Georgian: თანადროული (tanadrouli) — existing or created in the same period of time
  • German: gleichzeitig — existing or created in the same period of time
  • German: zeitgleich — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Greek: σύγχρονος (sýnchronos) — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Hungarian: egyidejű — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Hungarian: egykorú — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Hungarian: kortárs — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Hungarian: korabeli — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Japanese: 同時の (dōji no) — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Latvian: vienlaicīgs — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Manx: co-emshiragh — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Norwegian Bokmål: samtidig — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Polish: jednoczesny — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Portuguese: contemporâneo — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Romanian: contemporan — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Russian: одновре́ме́нный (odnovréménnyj) — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Sicilian: cuntimpuràniu — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Slovene: sodoben — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Spanish: contemporáneo — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Spanish: coetáneo — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Tagalog: alinsabay — existing or created in the same period of time
  • Ukrainian: одноча́сний (odnočásnyj) — existing or created in the same period of time
Real reading context

contemporaneous in complete knowledge articles