Dreye權威釋義 | contemporary

a.

當代的
His lecture is on contemporary American novelists.
他的演講是關於當代美國小說家的。
同時代的；同年齡的[（+with）]
Was Ben Jonson contemporary with Shakespeare?
班強森是否與莎士比亞同輩？

n.[C]

同時代的人；同年齡的人
He was looked down upon by his contemporaries.
他被他同時代的人瞧不起。
同時期的東西
當代人，現代人

辨析

同義:

a.同時期的，同時代的

coexistent coexisting coeval coetaneous coeternal contemporaneous synchronal synchronous isochronal coincident attending simultaneous concurrent at the same time

a.當代的

present present-day present-time present-age twentieth-century existing living here and now current cutting edge now

a.現代的

modern modish mod fashionable new-fashioned up-to-date in late hot new recent

以上來源於：《英漢大辭典》

/kənˈtɛmp(ə)r(ər)i/

adj.

living, occurring, or originating at the same time.
belonging to or occurring in the present.
▸modern in style or design.

n.

(pl. contemporaries)

a person or thing existing at the same time as another.

▸a person of roughly the same age as another.

Derivative

contemporarily adv.
contemporariness n.

Etymology

C17: from med. L. contemporarius, from con- ‘together with’ + tempus, tempor- ‘time’ (on the pattern of L. contemporaneus and late L. contemporalis).

以上來源於：《簡明牛津英語詞典》