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{
"term": "contemporary",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "belonging to the same time",
"sensetop": "contemporary with somebody/something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "We have no contemporary account of the battle *(= written near the time that it happened)*."
},
{
"text": "He was contemporary with the dramatist Congreve.",
"contextForm": "contemporary with somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "The amphitheatre is roughly contemporary with the Colosseum in Rome."
},
{
"text": "She used only strictly contemporary documents to research the book."
},
{
"text": "a composer contemporary with Beethoven"
},
{
"text": "a period broadly contemporary with the Shang dynasty"
}
],
"topics": ["History"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be"],
"adverb": ["exactly", "nearly", "broadly"],
"preposition": ["with"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "belonging to the present time",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "**contemporary society/culture**"
},
{
"text": "**contemporary art/music/dance**"
},
{
"text": "contemporary architecture/literature/painting/politics/history"
},
{
"text": "He is among the best-known **contemporary artists**."
},
{
"text": "The film paints a depressing picture of life in contemporary Britain."
},
{
"text": "She is one of the great innovators of contemporary dance."
},
{
"text": "The prize is awarded for the best piece of contemporary fiction published in that year."
},
{
"text": "This approach has contributed to growing inequality almost everywhere in the contemporary world."
}
],
"synonyms": "modern",
"topics": ["Buildings"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be"],
"adverb": ["decidedly", "thoroughly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "following modern ideas in style or design",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Try some contemporary colours on your kitchen walls."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kənˈtemprəri/",
"audio": "xc/contemporary/xcontemporary__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kənˈtempəreri/",
"audio": "xc/contemporary/xcontemporary__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin contemporarius, from con- ‘together with’ + tempus, tempor- ‘time’ (on the pattern of Latin contemporaneus and late Latin contemporalis)."
}