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contemp.

contemp. is the abbreviation of contemporary.

Meaning of contemporary

Adjective

contemporary (comparative more contemporary, superlative most contemporary)

  1. From the same time period, coexistent in time; contemporaneous.
    • A neighb'ring Wood born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees.a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, Claudian's Old Man of Verona^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays_(Cowley)/The_Dangers_of_an_Honest_Man_in_much_Company#Section23)
    Antonyms:
    anachronistic
  2. Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’).
    • We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.2012 January, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012, page 23
    Synonyms:
    current, modern, hodiern, de nos jours, present, present-day
    Antonyms:
    archaic, coming

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Questions about contemp.

What is contemp. the abbreviation of?
Contemp. is the abbreviation of contemporary.

Words near contemp. in the dictionary

  1. contemningly
  2. contemnor
  3. contemnors
  4. contemns
  5. contemp
  6. contemp.
  7. contemper
  8. contemperate
  9. contemperates
  10. contemperation
  11. contemperations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contemp. (page history and authors); contemporary (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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