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contempo

contempo adjective: contemporary; modern.

Adjective

contempo (comparative more contempo, superlative most contempo)

  1. (informal) Contemporary; modern.
    • You get “sex education" now in both high school and college classes: everyone determined not to be embarassed^([sic]), to be very up to date, very contempo.1969, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security, Investigation of Students for a Democratic Society, page 1141
    • It's all very contempo—as one might expect of the musical version of a film released just four years before.2004, Ethan Mordden, One More Kiss: The Broadway Musical in The 1970s, page 23

contempo meaning in Tamil

contempo in Tamil

சமகாலம்

Forms of contempo

comparativemore contempo
superlativemost contempo

Origin of contempo

Clipping of contemporary.

Questions about contempo

What does contempo mean?
Contempo means contemporary; modern.
What is contempo in Tamil?
Contempo in Tamil is சமகாலம். See Contempo meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is contempo?
Contempo is an adjective.

Words near contempo in the dictionary

  1. contemplatrix
  2. contempn
  3. contempned
  4. contempning
  5. contempns
  6. contempo
  7. contemporal
  8. contemporalities
  9. contemporality
  10. contemporanea expositio
  11. contemporanean

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contempo (page history and authors); contempo (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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