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adult contemporary

adult contemporary noun: a category of music including soft rock, ballads, easy listening, soul, and rhythm and blues.

Noun

adult contemporary (uncountable)

  1. A category of music including soft rock, ballads, easy listening, soul, and rhythm and blues.
    • MTV is a singles medium, as is the hottest (warmest?) new radio strategy God help us, “adult contemporary”; even AOR devotes the contemporary portion of its programming to putative singles.1990 January 2, Robert Christgau, “1980–1989: Rockism Faces the World”, in The Village Voice, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2022
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Synonyms of adult contemporary

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Questions about adult contemporary

What does adult contemporary mean?
Adult contemporary means a category of music including soft rock, ballads, easy listening, soul, and rhythm and blues.
What part of speech is adult contemporary?
Adult contemporary is a noun.

Words near adult contemporary in the dictionary

  1. adult beverages
  2. adult bookstore
  3. adult bookstores
  4. adult child
  5. adult children
  6. adult contemporary
  7. adult content
  8. adult education
  9. adult film
  10. adult films
  11. adult in the room

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